Re: [SQL] Max Length of SQL

I will open-source it and write an article explaining how it works on
my PHPBuilder.com web site.

It needs to be further debugged right now, and I am expanding it so
that it can talk to NNTP servers too (any volunteers????).

--Tim

---pierre(at)desertmoon(dot)com wrote:
>
> This sounds very cool....any chance of open sourcing it? So that
those of us
> who lack your most incredible skill can make use of it?
>
> -=pierre
>
> >
> > I've written a Java program that runs every so often (by Cron),
then grabs
> > the email, slices and dices it and drops it into PGSQL.
> >
> > It's pretty cool.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand BLOBS - are they indexable (ie fast
searches) and
> > are they stored inside the table?
> >
> > Is the example you gave appropriate for storing text? (looks like
graphics?)
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fabrice Scemama <fabrice(dot)scemama(at)gesnet(dot)net>
> > To: Tim Perdue, The Des Moines City.net <tim(at)dmcity(dot)net>
> > Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 6:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: [SQL] Max Length of SQL
> >
> >
> > >"Tim Perdue, The Des Moines City.net" wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I'm started to run into a situation where my SQL statements are
too long
> > >> (I'm archiving a mailing list into a Postgres table).
> > >>
> > >> What is the max length of a Text field in PostgreSQL?
Suggestions for
> > >> working around this besides large objects?
> > >>
> > >> Tim
> > >
> > >The maximal lenght is 8192 cars.
> > >You might need BLOBs instead. Here's an example :
> > >
> > > create table image (name text, raster oid);
> > > insert into image (name, raster) values ('fichier', \
> > > lo_import('/etc/motd'));
> > > select lo_export(image.raster, '/tmp/motd') from image \
> > > where name = 'fichier';
> > >
> > >Hope it helps.
> > >BTW, using Pg to store Mailing lists emais seems interesting.
> > >Do you have a daemon that gets the mails, then parse them and
> > >populate the DB with them ?...
> > >
> > >Fabrice
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

==
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