kurt _ wrote:
I am having a problem with Sun Java Studio Creator because the latest
version of the JDBC driver returns a field length of -1 for text fields.
My question: Is a text field just a varchar(Integer.MAX_VALUE)? If I
want to use the data binding part of the SJSC tool I will need to
convert my text fields to some standard SQL data type. I understand
that varchar just stores the actual length of the field, and not the
padded white space. Would anyone recommend for or against creating a
field of varchar(Integer.MAX_VALUE)? Will PostgreSQL choke on that? If
against, how is text implemented and how can I represent a
variable-length String in a SQL standard format?
varchar has a max of 255 characters, so yeh it'll choke using
integer.max_value.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype-character.html
has details on how string fields are stored and the differences.
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