Re: [GENERAL] Newbie Question

[Richard Poole]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 12:32:58PM -0500, Nick Fankhauser wrote:
> According to the documentation and Bruce M's book, there is no limit. I've
> never hit a limit while putting some pretty large (three page) narratives in
> a text field.

There is no limit on the "text" type as such, but there is still the limit
on the total size of a row: about 8k by default, 32k if you're willing
to recompile (see the FAQ). This limit will be removed entirely by TOAST
in 7.1 .

Richard