"Matthew V." <deusmech@yahoo.com> writes:
> What is the maximum length of a query nowadays? Back in 1998, it was 8192
> bytes,
That was a long time ago ;-). There has been no hard-wired upper limit
for several releases now.
[ It's rather amusing to watch MySQL's crashme test trying to discover
our maximum query length. At least on my machine, the Perl process
running crashme hits the kernel's per-process memory limit and dies,
while the backend it's talking to is still comfortably under the limit.
I wonder whether MySQL regards that as a test failure ... ]
regards, tom lane