Reader's Comments

Thought I'd point this out:- Oracle 9i has now apparently become one of the better XML databases available. While I have no practical experience as to whether PostgreSQL's implementation is better or even comparable, it's nevertheless interesting to note that even Yukon probably wont carry this feature.

-- Akshay R, May 25, 2004

Since MS Sql Server 7, the varchar data type can hold 8000 characters. (Don't know about earlier versions). MS Sql Server 2005 Yukon is supposed to allow .NET code in stored procedures. In my opinion, the chief limitation of MS Sql Server is that it lacks "Oracle Forms and Reports." Yukon is supposed to remedy this.

-- Louis N, July 29, 2004

PostgreSQL does support arbitrarily long text fields, I have been using it at least since the 7.3 (probably 7.2) days:
SELECT length(nota) as size from articulo order by size desc;
size
-------
70720
56067
38961
34634
33388
(...)

-- Gunnar Wolf, December 17, 2004