Re: storing large amounts of text

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
To: Paul Dlug <paul(at)nerdlabs(dot)com>
Cc: Stephan Richter <srichter(at)cbu(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: storing large amounts of text
Date: 2000-04-22 22:59:08
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10004221857490.19010-100000@chapelperilous.net
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Paul Dlug wrote:

> I thought TEXT had a limit of 8K or something around that size, I would
> need something larger.

You'd be better off breaking the text up into smaller fields. Another
option is to store a pathname to a file that contains the text of your
article.

Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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