What you just tested, on the other hand, was the limit of your maxpacket :-)
Up that to something unlikely and try again :-)
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Baron Schwartz <ba...@xaprb.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Cantwell, Bryan
> <bcantw...@firescope.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to put the result of a function that returns MEDIUMTEXT into
> > a user variable in my procedure. I haven't attempted to push the limits
> > of the MEDIUMTEXT size, but wonder if the user variable can even handle
> > this?
>
>
> The REPEAT() function helps here:
>
> mysql> set @var := repeat('a', 1024 * 1024);
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec)
>
> mysql> select length(@var);
> +--------------+
> | length(@var) |
> +--------------+
> | 1048576 |
> +--------------+
> 1 row in set (0.01 sec)
>
> So it accepts a mebibyte, let's see if we can notch that up :)
>
> mysql> set @var := repeat('a', 1024 * 1024 * 1024);
> Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec)
>
> mysql> show warnings;
>
> +---------+------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Level | Code | Message
> |
>
> +---------+------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Warning | 1301 | Result of repeat() was larger than
> max_allowed_packet (16777216) - truncated |
>
> +---------+------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
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Celsius is based on water temperature.
Fahrenheit is based on alcohol temperature.
Ergo, Fahrenheit is better than Celsius. QED.
