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From: Hubert depesz Lubaczewski <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: wrong information about unlimied size of text field?
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:50:03 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 08:55:37PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > according to what i know, where is a limit for up to 2gigabytes of data
> > in text fields (according to c.h).
> > this limit is of course very big, but i belive it should be mentioned in
> > datatype.sgml instead of saying:
> If you continue reading you will find
> which seems to be the information you are looking for.

o.k. now i know it for sure. but what about others who just stumble on
"unlimited length", and just *dont* read further? why put such a false
statement in our docs?

depesz

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hubert depesz lubaczewski                          http://www.depesz.pl/
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Mój Boże, spraw abym milczał, dopóki się nie upewnię,  że  naprawdę  mam
coś do powiedzenia.                                      (c) 1998 depesz



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