The TEXT type has a 64K limit, the MEDIUMTEXT has a16MB limit and LONGTEXT
has a 4GB limit!

MEDIUMTEXT should be enough, but will TEXT do as default in the MySQL
scheme?

/jacob

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From: "Luke Noel-Storr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Could not parse DAV:version-set:


> Carlos Villegas wrote:
>
> > Some databases like PostgreSQL have a type TEXT with unlimited length.
> > We only need to change the type in the schema, the DB adapter doesn't
> > have to be changed. For databases that don't have a similar type, I
> > guess a BLOB will be one way.
>
>
> MySQL also has a TEXT type (and LONGTEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, etc).  It's not of
> unlimited length, but a LONGTEXT field can be up to 2^32 characters
> long, I guess the version history would need to be pretty damn long to
> exceed that.
>
> I've tried changing the field to a TEXT filed and it seems fine, can
> anyone see any potential problems with this approach?
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Luke.
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