On Tue, 21 May 2002, Doug Fields wrote:
>
> > > Do you know how I can tell it to "silently truncate" the data as I believe
> > > it used to?
> >
> >Is there a reason you can't just use TEXT? It will be stored the same
> >internally...
>
> The only reason being that I don't want to waste space storing arbitrarily
> long pieces of information.
>
> I was not aware that TEXT is just as (in)efficient as VARCHAR, though. If
> that is truly the case, I will consider using TEXT in some places, but only
> when I am very careful in the INSERT and UPDATE clauses so as not to store
> too long things.
>
> >But the most obvious way I can think of to do what you're asking is
> >to define a rule to replace the value inserted with a call to
> >substring().
>
> So, basically:
>
> 1) There's absolutely no way to get back the 7.1.3 "silent truncation"
> behavior (which is, IMO, stupid, I like the non-standard truncation behavior)
You could do this via a text column and a before trigger which might work
better than a rule, but I haven't tried either, so...