Re: [GENERAL] storing large amounts of text

2000-04-24 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
Just to give everyone here a head's up as to what's coming: The developers have long known that the size limit on tuple storage (particularly as it affects the 'text' type) needs to go away, and that the existing large objects (lo) are less than ideal as a work around. Jan Wieck has done the inita

Re: [GENERAL] storing large amounts of text

2000-04-22 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Paul Dlug wrote: > I thought TEXT had a limit of 8K or something around that size, I would > need something larger. You'd be better off breaking the text up into smaller fields. Another option is to store a pathname to a file that contains the text of your article. Brett W

Re: [GENERAL] storing large amounts of text

2000-04-22 Thread Titus Brown
-> I'm sure this has come up before because it just logically seems like -> others would have run up against this too. Is it possible to store a -> large amount of text in a row/field? I want to store articles in the -> database along with information about them, sort of a content databasing -> sy

Re: [GENERAL] storing large amounts of text

2000-04-22 Thread Paul Dlug
I thought TEXT had a limit of 8K or something around that size, I would need something larger. Stephan Richter wrote: > > At 08:19 PM 4/22/00 +, Paul Dlug wrote: > >I'm sure this has come up before because it just logically seems like > >others would have run up against this too. Is it possi

Re: [GENERAL] storing large amounts of text

2000-04-22 Thread Stephan Richter
At 08:19 PM 4/22/00 +, Paul Dlug wrote: >I'm sure this has come up before because it just logically seems like >others would have run up against this too. Is it possible to store a >large amount of text in a row/field? I want to store articles in the >database along with information about them

[GENERAL] storing large amounts of text

2000-04-22 Thread Paul Dlug
I'm sure this has come up before because it just logically seems like others would have run up against this too. Is it possible to store a large amount of text in a row/field? I want to store articles in the database along with information about them, sort of a content databasing system. Can anyon