Thread: FW: Query string length

FW: Query string length

From
"Ansley, Michael"
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I forgot, tokens are still limited to 16kB ;-)

>>  Right, it works.  Patches will arrive as soon as I figure out how to get
cvs 
>>  to diff the whole lot into one patch.  I managed to get a 97kB query
through, 
>>  where the normal max was 64kB.  I have to warn though, it munches
memory.  
>>  Disappearing at a rate of about 6MB a second, my paltry 64MB RAM with 
>>  100MB swap looked alarmingly small.  Of course, if you're on a decent
server, 
>>  this becomes less of an issue, but it doesn't go away.  Still, it's
better than 
>>  being limited to 64kB.

>>  The main issue seemed to be scan.l  I had to change myinput() to cope
with 
>>  multiple calls, rather than assuming that flex would call it once only
for the 
>>  entire query.  As a matter of interest, the code seems to think that lex
might 
>>  still be used.  Is this the case, or can I remove the lex-specific code,
i.e.: we 
>>  assume flex to be used ALWAYS.

> MikeA
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