Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 03/02/2016 03:18 PM, Daniel Verite wrote: >> However, getting it to the client with \copy big2 to 'file' >> still produces the error in psql: >> lost synchronization with server: got message type "d" >> and leaves an empty file, so there are more problems to solve to >> go beyond 2GB text per row.
> My guess is this is a problem at the protocol level - the 'd' message is > CopyData, and all the messages use int32 to define length. So if there's > a 2GB row, it's likely to overflow. I'm too lazy to check the exact wording, but I don't think there's a hard and fast promise in the protocol doc that one CopyData message == one row. So we could probably subdivide a very wide line into multiple messages. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers