Re: How to simulate MEMO data type?Thanks!

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#1Mitch Vincent
mitch@venux.net

Use the unlimited length PostgreSQL type "text" (In 7.1 it's unlimited,
before there were limits).

-Mitch

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From: "Maurizio Ortolan" <crix98__@tin.it>
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Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 1:18 PM
Subject: How to simulate MEMO data type?Thanks!

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Hello!

I'm porting a database from MS Access
to PostgreSQL.

How can I simulate in pgsql the 'MEMO'
(up to 65000 chars) data type, which
is often used in Access ?

Where can I find an easy example?

I don't' know if it's important, but
I'm using Linux,Apache,Javascript &
PHP.
^^^

Many thanks to all of you!
CIAO!
MAURIZIO

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#2Yann Ramin
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In reply to: Mitch Vincent (#1)

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If you're using PGSQL 7.1, your looking for a 'text' type field. Pre-7.1 the
text field was limited to 8k, now its much larger.

On Sunday 15 April 2001 10:18 am, Maurizio Ortolan wrote:

Hello!

I'm porting a database from MS Access
to PostgreSQL.

How can I simulate in pgsql the 'MEMO'
(up to 65000 chars) data type, which
is often used in Access ?

Where can I find an easy example?

I don't' know if it's important, but
I'm using Linux,Apache,Javascript &
PHP.
^^^

Many thanks to all of you!
CIAO!
MAURIZIO

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#3Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Yann Ramin (#2)

Maurizio Ortolan writes:

How can I simulate in pgsql the 'MEMO'
(up to 65000 chars) data type, which
is often used in Access ?

Use varchar or text and PostgreSQL 7.1. They can be up to about 1 GB in
size.

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