RE: [SQL] Insert a long text

> -----Original Message-----
> Anatoly K. Lasareff hat gesagt: // Anatoly K. Lasareff wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "BB" == Brian Baquiran <brianb(at)evoserve(dot)com> writes:
> >
> > >> I want to insert a long text (up to 10.000 words) into a table
> > >> (for example, table1) into a field (field1) which is a 'text'
> > >> field. I have tried the followings: INSERT INTO table1 VALUES ('
> > >> long text'...) UPDATE table1 SET field1='long text' and is not
> > >> working. I'm using servlets and Apache server, on Linux.
> >
> > BB> What data type are you using for the text field? As far as I
> > BB> know, the 'text' datatype can only take 8K.
> >
> > BB> I don't know what the maximum size for varchar is.
> >
> > 8K is maximum length of whole record. In your case you must
> use 'large
> > objects' as datatype for big text.
>
> How does one do this, preferably with perl and DBI?
>
> What is the best way to handle big (>= 8k) text fields? It
> would be nice if
> postgres could have an easy interface for larger text sizes
> or a set of
> example functions to deal with such chunks.
>
> A connected question of mine is:
> I have played with the data types text and varchar to store
> some text from a
> webbrowser with a perl-DBI cgi script.
> The table has one INT field called "id" and one text field
> where I tested
> the types: text, varchar, varchar(2000) and varchar(7000).
> Inserting text only works if the text is a lot smaller than
> 8k - only about
> 20 lines of text get inserted without beeing cropped.
> How can I assert that the whole text gets inserted and how can I get a
> message/error if the text did not fit or has been shortend?
> Has anybody an
> example script or perl code snippet with text fields roughly
> 2000-4000 bytes
> long?
> This problem annoys me for some weeks now so I think I am an idiot and
> Postgres proves it...
>
> Any help would be great and maybe let me sleep better ;)
If you need to search the text possible solutions:
1) store the text in chunks in the database.
in other words instead of just using
CREATE TABLE my_text(message_id INT, data TEXT)
try
CREATE TABLE my_text(message_id INT, chunk_id INT, data TEXT);
then figure out what your insert limit is and break each TEXT
block into chunks of that size.
2) use a full-text-index algorithm (great for searches, but a space
hog).
not mutually exclusive from option 1 above, but there are
implementations that could make option 1 unnecessary if you know
that
you'll never have a text block greater than a certain size.
Look in the contrib directory of the distribution for a working
sample/example.
If you don't care about searching:
3) use large objects
There are also examples of this in the contrib directory.
This option could be combined with option 2 to implement searching,

but I wouldn't want to have to change the implementations to
support
it.

Hope this helps,
-DEJ