Re: Limiting the text size on text fields

2007-10-18 Thread Ganesh's screen
Thank you, Sebastian. Also does the usage of UTF-8 over Latin1 restraints the usage or extensibility? Sebastian Mendel wrote: > > Ganesh's screen schrieb: >> Is there a way to restrict the length of text field in MySQL. For >> example, it >> is of 65K limit and could hold more than 2 charac

Re: Limiting the text size on text fields

2007-10-18 Thread Sebastian Mendel
Ganesh's screen schrieb: > Is there a way to restrict the length of text field in MySQL. For example, it > is of 65K limit and could hold more than 2 characters. Is there a way to > restrict that to 4000 characters at table/field level. Coz the > max_allowed_packet constrainted the entire DB.