Re: [GENERAL] Max Length for VARCHAR?

2000-03-11 Thread Paul Dlug
How about: TEXT Relevant section in the users guide: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/user/datatype965.htm Chris Gokey wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > What is the maximum length of VARCHAR? If there something equivalent > to Oracle's LONG in postgresql? I need a datatype that can hold very > larg

[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

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

Re: [GENERAL] Zip Code Proximity

2000-05-19 Thread Paul Dlug
ov/geo/www/gazetteer/places.html > # > # > > -- > dustin sallingsThe world is watching America, > http://2852210114/~dustin/ and America is watching TV. -- Paul Dlug Unix/Web Programmer