Re: TUPLE SIZE HELP

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:
> > 
> > > Thomas Swan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >That would be the wrong thing to change in any case.  BLCKSZ in
> > > > >include/config.h is the value you can twiddle.
> > > >
> > > > Are there any plans to remove this limitation from the TEXT datatype?  If
> > > > so, do you know what version we might see this in?
> > >
> > >     It  is  already  in  the current development tree and will be
> > >     shipped with the next release, scheduled for end of the year.
> > 
> > Just a quick note ... with v7.x, you *can* use the lztext type to get by
> > the limitation ... its a temporary fix, but I believe that Vince is using
> > it for the web site for similar reasons to the original poster ...
> 
> IIRC lztext does only compression and not splitting, so it just gets you
> so far ...

Correct ...