Re: [SQL] Insert a long text

Anatoly K. Lasareff hat gesagt: // Anatoly K. Lasareff wrote:

> >>>>> "BB" == Brian Baquiran <brianb@evoserve.com> writes:
>
>  >> I want to insert a long text (up to 10.000 words) into a table
>  >> (for example, table1) into a field (field1) which is a 'text'
>  >> field. I have tried the followings: INSERT INTO table1 VALUES ('
>  >> long text'...) UPDATE table1 SET field1='long text' and is not
>  >> working. I'm using servlets and Apache server, on Linux.
>
>  BB> What data type are you using for the text field? As far as I
>  BB> know, the 'text' datatype can only take 8K.
>
>  BB> I don't know what the maximum size for varchar is.
>
> 8K is maximum length of whole record. In your case you must use 'large
> objects' as datatype for big text.

How does one do this, preferably with perl and DBI?

What is the best way to handle big (>= 8k) text fields? It would be nice if
postgres could have an easy interface for larger text sizes or a set of
example functions to deal with such chunks.

A connected question of mine is:
I have played with the data types text and varchar to store some text from a
webbrowser with a perl-DBI cgi script.
The table has one INT field called "id" and one text field where I tested
the types: text, varchar, varchar(2000) and varchar(7000).
Inserting text only works if the text is a lot smaller than 8k - only about
20 lines of text get inserted without beeing cropped.
How can I assert that the whole text gets inserted and how can I get a
message/error if the text did not fit or has been shortend? Has anybody an
example script or perl code snippet with text fields roughly 2000-4000 bytes
long?
This problem annoys me for some weeks now so I think I am an idiot and
Postgres proves it...

Any help would be great and maybe let me sleep better ;)
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