Excerpts from Matthijs Bomhoff's message of mié jun 29 15:20:49 -0400 2011:
> Possibly related: In some earlier attempts at reproducing this, I > actually tried to use length() instead of md5(). It seemed that I > could not get it to trigger with that. Just selecting * triggers it of > course, but caused a bit too much clutter in my psql for the required > long random strings, so I had to find a function that would actually > need the value itself. Hence the md5(). Yeah, the length can be obtained from the toast header AFAIR, so you don't need to do a full detoast of the value, which masks the problem. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs