I should have had "sanity check" in my subject -- This was exactly the 
problem.. my first asumption a couple hours ago was 2^24 ... not 16 -- (wrong 
table) -- Grief!!

Thanks _alot_ guys.





On Sunday 18 September 2005 22:45, you wrote:
> Bill,
>
> It might be a MySQL limitation:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/storage-requirements.html
>
> If you're using a BLOB column type, you're limited to 2^16 bytes, which is
> the barrier you're hitting.  Try a MEDIUMBLOB column and see if that
> helps.
>
>       --pete
>
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Bill Whillers wrote:
> > When using Storable freeze/thaw to work with basic object (hash) storage
> > within a mysql db (blob column), I can't seem to get any more than 65535
> > bytes stored.
> >
> > Since 65535 appears to be a "magic" number, I've been digging for where
> > my problem might reside (Storable, Perl, etc).  but knowing many on this
> > list use Storable to do lots of cool things,  can someone provide a clue?
> >
> > Any other comments are much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Bill
>
> ----
> Peter Leonard
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