Re: OCINewDescriptor & long fields

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:07:25AM -0700, Vince LaMonica wrote: > On 2000-08-24, Arjan Haverkamp stated: > > } I installed PHP4.0.1pl2 and Oracle8i, it all works beautifully together. > > Those are dangerous words here - a lot of folks will be e.mailing you, I'm > sure. :-) > > } Does anybody now how to get more than 4000 characters into an Oracle > } long column??? > > It isn't possible. 4000 char is the limit in 8.1.6. Maybe in 8.2 [they > already moved from a 2000 char limit to 4000 in 8.1.6, so i'm not sure if > there is much demand for this]. But according to several Oracle dbas here, > going past the 4000 char limit in a long isn't possible; no > workarounds. :( you are wrong: the limit for LONG is 2GB in 7.x, 8.0.x and 8.1.x oracle recoments _not_ to use longs (but clobs instead) and long-support will dissapear in some future oracle release (v25?;-) tc > > /vjl/ > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany