Re: Newbie question - Input limitations on mysql client?

2004-09-30 Thread Ted Byrne
As I mentioned in my post, I did wind up using a perl script, and I will continue down that path in the future. I was mainly wondering about limits to the mysql client for quick-n-dirty testing (as someone who is learning MySQL, as opposed to developing for a production environment). Thanks fo

Re: Newbie question - Input limitations on mysql client?

2004-09-29 Thread Andrew Kreps
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:05:29 -0400, Ted Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is the apparent line length limit a restriction imposed by the client? (And > does it apply if you are piping or redirecting output from another process > or a file?) > It sounds like you should either be using a script

Newbie question - Input limitations on mysql client?

2004-09-29 Thread Ted Byrne
Greetings, I posted this to the MySQL Newbie forum, but have not received a response. Any feedback would be appreciated. -tb Environment: mysql server v4.0.13 (Win2K) mysql client v5.0.0.0(Win2K) In attempting to (manually) insert records with some rather lengthy strings, I pasted the insert st