| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Want some basic compare of data type on PostgreSQL and MySQL |
| Date: | 2011-09-01 13:45:37 |
| Message-ID: | CAOR=d=2WWGQSE+BzBX3q6QSL4wa2mMsLzb7GOZDPYC3eK0y8_A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Leif Biberg Kristensen
<leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thursday 1. September 2011 11.16.23 Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> The postgresql type text is a varchar with
>> no precision that can hold up to about a gig or so of text. Not that
>> i recommend putting a gig of text into a single field in a database.
>
> Printed out as plain text on paper with 4,000 characters per page, it would
> produce about 500 volumes of 500 pages each. That would take up 20 running
> metres of shelf space.
>
> In order to avoid global deforestation, please restrain your urge to print out
> those big text fields.
I'm sure with an appropriately small font we could cut that right
down, pardon the pun.
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