Paul J Stevens wrote: > Martin Furter wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> RFC2822 section 2.1.1 "Line Length Limits" specifies a maximum of 998 >> characters per line (excluding trailing CRLF). >> >> So changing the column to VARCHAR(998) seems more appropriate. > > If only that were legal. Maximum width for varchar is 255.
That depends on the database. PostgreSQL allows essentially unlimited varchar() variables (or use text as the type) (actual limit is around 1GB. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3683 US
