Philip Hallstrom wrote: >>> >>> Thanks a million for your reply. I will give that a go. I had seen that >>> that is possible but I was a bit worried that it would mean that my >>> migrations wouldn't be database agnostic >> >> Is there a reason that you're not using VARCHAR? That should hold the >> data (in less space, I believe!) and keep your migrations DB-agnostic. > > Doesn't mysql limit varchar to 65kb or so? > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/char.html
Quite right. I was looking for size limits on VARCHAR and somehow missed that. Thanks! Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
