On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Leif Biberg Kristensen <l...@solumslekt.org> wrote: > On Thursday 1. September 2011 11.16.23 Scott Marlowe wrote: >> The postgresql type text is a varchar with >> no precision that can hold up to about a gig or so of text. Not that >> i recommend putting a gig of text into a single field in a database. > > Printed out as plain text on paper with 4,000 characters per page, it would > produce about 500 volumes of 500 pages each. That would take up 20 running > metres of shelf space. > > In order to avoid global deforestation, please restrain your urge to print out > those big text fields.
I'm sure with an appropriately small font we could cut that right down, pardon the pun. -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
