so it turns out the problem is my incompetence. i thought blob allowed long values.
i've been using mysql since 3.something and i still don't know much about its abundance of types. i retract my comments and crawl back into my hole. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp