Sorry, isn't really a rumor... just outdated information. When I first
wrote the database repository a year or more ago, postgres didn't support
large binary objects and mysql was capped. Thanks for correcting us.
Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies
http://www.lokitech.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 5:09 AM
Subject: MySQL maximium field size is *not* limited to 1meg
>
> I dont know where the rumor started that has us all accept that MySQL has
a
> maximum field size of 1meg
> in fact a LONGTEXT text field, or LONGBLOB Binary object field can store
> 4Gb. (more than enough for James' uses)
>
> If people are having trouble using this, they should look to their config
> and in particular the max_allowed_packet option which defaults at 64k per
> connection, and is the input buffer.
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