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		striking on July 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why we're ending support for MySQL It doesn't matter, because they're looking for a different thing entirely. PostgreSQL TEXT is just without a limit. Simple as that.

sbov on July 3, 2019 | [–]

Not true, from: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-character.h...

> In any case, the longest possible character string that can be stored is about 1 GB.

michelpp on July 3, 2019 | [–]

TEXT, like all Postgres varlena types, is limited to 1GB. Which for many people is effectively without limit.

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