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Daniel

If you want true variable length strings use the TEXT type. This gets stored
as variable length binary text and can do just about everything that VARCHAR
can.

Regards

Peter Hearty
Lutris Technologies UK Ltd.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel HERLEMONT <dht@club-internet.fr>
To: instantDB@enhydra.org <instantDB@enhydra.org>
Date: 23 April 2000 16:35
Subject: InstantDB: newbee questions


>Hello.
>
>First congratulation for this open source initiative, I am quite sure that
>it will boost the InstanDB I already use and I realy appreciate its high
>performance.
>
>I have a simple question about String, TEXT, VARCHAR ....
>
>It seems that I have to reserve the max length for a field mapped into a
>VARCHAR.
>I understand the implementation rationale of that but
>it is very frustating since, I even don't know the size of my field in
>advance, and not in very convinient for automatic mapping of JAVA object to
>fields and lead to huge and wasted space on disk.
>
>Is it possible to implement String in BLOB or CLOB and provide still
>searching capabilities with "like" operators
>Maybe the TEXT data type cand be use
>
>
>
>
>
>
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