Re: [GENERAL] 7.1.1 backend crashes on updates to very large text columns

2001-05-28 Thread Tom Lane
"Norman J. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, on update to the larger (100k+)columns, the postgres backend > crashes and dumps core. I've included a backtrace from the core file. This looks entirely irrelevant to either TOAST or update; I think it is the known 7.1.1 bug with SELECTs t

[GENERAL] 7.1.1 backend crashes on updates to very large text columns

2001-05-28 Thread Norman J. Clarke
Hello, I have some tables with text (TOAST) columns that store xml files of up to about 100k in size. Most are less than 1-10k, with the 100k columns being somewhat unusual. I'd like to have the liberty of occaisonally storing up to about 2MB in these columns without resorting to BLOB columns if