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- From: bholt@olympia.mcis.washington.edu (Brent Holterman)
- Subject: Re: Ingres questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.203552.27944@u.washington.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:35:52 GMT
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- In article <25987@sybase.sybase.com>, wong@sybase.com (J. Wong) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov11.180040.7771@dcatlas.dot.gov> sethg@dcatlas.dot.gov writes:
- |> >I don't know of any workaround other than vertically partitioning your tables.
- |> >On the other hand, Ingres 6.5 to be released in the spring will support BLOBs
- |> >and presumably remove the 2000-byte limit (based on Ingres's current page
- |> >size of 2048 bytes) on general fields.
- |>
- |> Wrong! INGRES 6.5 will support BLOBs as columns, but will not remove the 2000
- |> byte limit on tuple size.
-
- I was recently informed by an Ingres Technical Rep that this limit _will_ go away in
- release 6.5. The new limit will be 2 gigabytes per tuple (No, I'm not kidding).
-
- Of course, all this came with the caveat that '..this is all unofficial...' Marketing
- hype? Who knows...
-
- BTW, vertically partitioning tables works just fine until you try a select that joins
- these partitions back together--you'll still have to strip out enough columns to get the
- result tuple within the 2000 byte limit.
-
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