Re: wrong information about unlimied size of text field? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Hubert depesz Lubaczewski
Subject Re: wrong information about unlimied size of text field?
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Msg-id 20020904165003.GC8221@depesz.pl
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In response to Re: wrong information about unlimied size of text field?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 08:55:37PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > according to what i know, where is a limit for up to 2gigabytes of data
> > in text fields (according to c.h).
> > this limit is of course very big, but i belive it should be mentioned in
> > datatype.sgml instead of saying:
> If you continue reading you will find
> which seems to be the information you are looking for.

o.k. now i know it for sure. but what about others who just stumble on
"unlimited length", and just *dont* read further? why put such a false
statement in our docs?

depesz

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