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> Hi Ken,
>
> Do you know a good way to get the max row size in a table?
> Or maybe I'll have to get this information from the metadata....
>
> thanks!
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:11 PM, ktm(at)rice(dot)edu <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:08:36PM -0300, Miguel Angel Conte wrote:
>> > Unfortunately It's an inherited data model and I can't make any change
>> for
>> > now...
>> > Thanks for your answer!
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Reinoud van Leeuwen <
>> > reinoud(dot)v(at)n(dot)leeuwen(dot)net> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:48:26PM -0300, Miguel Angel Conte wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Something like:
>> > > > "If I'm not going to exceed the size limit, then I can add a new
>> column"
>> > >
>> > > You want to add columns in your application? Are you sure you have the
>> > > right datamodel?
>> > >
>> > > Reinoud
>> > > --
>> Hi Reinoud,
>>
>> I think you will need to write a function to grovel around in the database
>> to determine what the size of the row would be given a definition. Tedious
>> but straight-forward.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ken
>>
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