UNIQUE constraint on large VARCHARs - PostgreSQL I have a column defined like:

data_url character varying(32768) NOT NULL


and UNIQUE constraint on that column:

CONSTRAINT unique_data_url UNIQUE (data_url)


When a large object is being inserted into the table, the following error message appears:


ERROR:  index row requires 32584 bytes, maximum size is 8191



How can PostgreSQL be set in order to be able to index object larger that 8191 chars? Space and speed are not a problem. It is a rarely changed table of at most hundreds of rows.

Environment: PostgreSQL 9.3.6, Fedora 20 x64
As suggested by @Josh Kupershmidt and @JoeNahmias the solution is to use UNIQUE on md5 hash of the long value. However PostgreSQL 9.3 doesn't support expressions in UNIQUE constraints so an index, that supports expressions, has to be used:

create unique index unique_data_url_index on mytable (md5(data_url));