maximal length of varchar

i'm interested in knowing how the varchar type is
limited. since there are no references to this it
seems to me, as if there was no postgres-internal
limit.

is this limit posed just by the os/filesystem/memory?

please CC to me, since i am not subscribed to this
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thanks in advance,

guenther mair

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