Anyone that thinks they need a 16K character column is
smoking something which the State of California says
is OK for medical purposes, but the federal
government disagrees.

Such a beast belongs in a blob - and use of blobs
in expressions (where upper(blob) like '%FOO%')
should have better support.

Seriously, who needs a row of data that large?

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roman Rokytskyy [mailto:rrokytskyy@...]
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:54 AM
> To: Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Firebird-Architect] Re: UTF-8 vs UTF-16
>
>
> > > I think that Firebird engine could (and should) become completely
> > > UNICODE-16. No zoo of charsets, no multibyte encodings with a sword
> > > of Damocles of buffer overflows.
>
> c) Current limitation of CHAR and VARCHAR columns is ~32,000 bytes.
> Saying that each character needs 2 bytes, you decrease this boundary
> to ~16,000.
>
> Roman
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