On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Leif Biberg Kristensen
<leif@solumslekt.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.
