[dev] Horde_Db and text fields

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Tue Dec 6 15:23:34 UTC 2011


Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
>> There was a recent ActiveSync related bug  
>> (http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6601)

I obviously copied the wrong tab's url here. For completeness, the  
correct ticket is: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/10822

>> the brought database field length issues to my attention. In MySQL,  
>> the 'text' field is limited to 64k, while it is essentially  
>> unlimited in PostgreSQL, and in SQLite, by default, is around 2GB.
>>
>> MySQL has additional text fields with larger limits. Does it make  
>> sense to add support for those additional fields to the various  
>> Schema objects? Obviously for RDBMS other than MySQL, they would  
>> simply be aliases to the 'text' field...
>
> Yes, similar to some of the integer field sizing code. I think that  
> makes sense.

Done. Thanks for the feedback.

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mike

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