Re: storing large amounts of text

From: Stephan Richter <srichter(at)cbu(dot)edu>
To: Paul Dlug <paul(at)nerdlabs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: storing large amounts of text
Date: 2000-04-22 21:54:42
Message-ID: 4.3.1.0.20000422165256.00a90450@mail.cbu.edu
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At 08:19 PM 4/22/00 +0000, Paul Dlug wrote:
>I'm sure this has come up before because it just logically seems like
>others would have run up against this too. Is it possible to store a
>large amount of text in a row/field? I want to store articles in the
>database along with information about them, sort of a content databasing
>system. Can anyone reccommend a good way to go about doing this in
>Postgres? Any and all help greatly appreciated.

The TEXT type will help you or do you look for something else?

CREATE TABLE foo (
id int8,
content text);

Regards,
Stephan
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