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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