DB design document

Roland Roberts roland@astrofoto.org
13 Dec 2000 22:05:24 -0500


>>>>> "dp" == Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com> writes:

    dp> Ok, I guess postgres's 'text' field (arbitrary length text) isn't very
    dp> common. That is too bad; I dislike putting limits on user-entered text
    dp> fields.

No, but I think Oracle has a "LONG" type which is similar; perhaps it
is only Oracle 8 though.  But I have this vague recollection that LONG was
not indexable :-(

roland
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