Ryan,
Tuesday, December 03, 2002, 2:04:03 AM, you wrote:

RCGT> I have successfully inserted and retrieved binary image files within
RCGT> MySQL.  No big deal.

RCGT> However, for quite some time I was perplexed because only about half my 
RCGT> image was going through.

RCGT> It seems that MySQL accepts insertion of a string into a BLOB field that 
RCGT> is longer than the maximum length of the BLOB data-type and it will 
RCGT> still accept it.

Yes, and it's mentioned in the manual:
     If you assign a value to a BLOB or TEXT column that exceeds the
     column type's maximum length, the value is truncated to fit.

RCGT> Perhaps MySQL should output an error or at least a warning to know the 
RCGT> string is too long.



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