On 3/17/06, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Cripps wrote: > > On 3/17/06, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Why are you using a BLOB when the content is text? > > > > I'm using BLOB because I want them to be able to write content that is > > longer than 255 chars. > > I'm no MySQL expert but the docs say VARCHAR fields can be up to 65,535 > chars.
65,535 for version 5.0.3 upwards - and I'm running version 4 - so it appears that I'm stuck with Blob unless you know something that I don't? Adam -- http://www.monkeez.org PGP key: 0x7111B833 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor