RE: a very big field

This could be ine solution, but I won't use text files if I could do it with the database, becuase I have done a script to manage this news, and they appear in a web page, and the idea it isn't to change all the script. I have been loocking in the manual and don't says anithing about blob type.
Maybe is any place to configure the size of a field?
thank you.
PD:I don't want to desprestigy postgres but I thougth that with postgres I won't have this kind of problems.

Fernando Caamaño
Programador web
Interweb Research
www.interweb-research.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Nikolay Mijaylov
To: Fernando Caamaño ; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 5:01 PM
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] a very big field

your english is fine

you can use BLOb field , but they are very strange and little confuse in pgsql. your db directory will be filled with indexes and so on.

I recommend that you are use text files, and to store name in db char field. or to use filenames that refer to key.

|id|...|
| 1|...|
| 2|...|

$ls /www/newsstore/
news.1.txt
news.2.txt
$

this directory can be in your www root, or outside it. If its outside you can include these files into the respond web page (PHP require or <!--#include )

Nikolay
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)hub(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)hub(dot)org]On Behalf Of Fernando Caamaño
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 5:45 PM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [GENERAL] a very big field

Hi all, I have to store news in a postgres database, and my problem is that when I try to insert a very big news, it tolds me that it can't store it becuase it is to big, this news are 6 pages long in a ms-word document. I have definde this field as text, exists any other type for data storage that allows bigest size?
thank you and sorry for my bad english...
Fernando Caamaño
Programador web
Interweb Research
www.interweb-research.net