On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, shaj  wrote:

> Can any one tell me what is the text limitation for mySQL??

TEXT datatype is limited to a maximum length of 65535 (2^16 - 1) 
characters.

LONGTEXT allows up to 4'294'967'295 (2^32 - 1) characters, which is enuf
for most applications. The real limitation is that fulltext indexing only
works for VARCHAR and TEXT.

Thomas


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