Re: [GENERAL] CLOB & BLOB limitations in PostgreSQL

2014-04-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/04/2014 16:45, Jack.O'sulli...@tessella.com wrote: > With point two, does this mean that any table with a bytea datatype is > limited to 4 billion rows (which would seem in conflict with the > "unlimited rows" shown by http://www.postgresql.org/about)? If we had > rows where the bytea was a

Re: [GENERAL] CLOB & BLOB limitations in PostgreSQL

2014-04-14 Thread Albe Laurenz
Jack.O'Sullivan wrote: > I am working for a client who is interested in migrating from Oracle to > Postgres. Their database is > currently ~20TB in size, and is growing. The biggest table in this database > is effectively a BLOB > store and currently has around 1 billion rows. > > From reading a

Re: [GENERAL] CLOB & BLOB limitations in PostgreSQL

2014-04-11 Thread Jack . O'Sullivan
hich is in the BLOB type column. The particular client I'm doing this for uses the compressed version, so all of their data in this table is binary. Thanks Jack From: Andy Colson To: Jack.O'sulli...@tessella.com, pgsql-general@postgresql.org, Date: 11/04/2014 16:24 Subjec

Re: [GENERAL] CLOB & BLOB limitations in PostgreSQL

2014-04-11 Thread Andy Colson
On 4/11/2014 9:45 AM, Jack.O'sulli...@tessella.com wrote: I am working for a client who is interested in migrating from Oracle to Postgres. Their database is currently ~20TB in size, and is growing. The biggest table in this database is effectively a BLOB store and currently has around 1 billion

[GENERAL] CLOB & BLOB limitations in PostgreSQL

2014-04-11 Thread Jack . O'Sullivan
I am working for a client who is interested in migrating from Oracle to Postgres. Their database is currently ~20TB in size, and is growing. The biggest table in this database is effectively a BLOB store and currently has around 1 billion rows. >From reading around Postgres, there are a couple