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.
regards, Leif
