bug in length() function on large text fields?

[Bart Pietercil]

Hi Ruslan;

if I recall correctly we already talked about this problem ?
length calculation on text fields only correct when length < 255. Was this not related to page size of textfield ?

hth



Bart Pietercil
CTO Cognosis NV



On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:31, Bernard Devlin wrote:

> Hi Ruslan
> 
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin
> <ruslan_zasukhin at valentina-db.com> wrote:
>> On 1/18/10 11:54 AM, "Bernard Devlin" <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This TEXT field is compressed?
>> 
>> If yes then may be this is side effect of that bug
>> 
>> If no compression, then yes please report it as separate issue.
>> 
> Sorry to say that this is with an uncompressed TEXT field, so it is a
> separate issue.  Furthermore, whilst the compressor error manifests
> itself with text fields > 8.2mb in size, this problem begins to show
> with text field sizes of around 64KB.
> 
> How can I export the results from VStudio so that you can see there is
> some pattern to the incorrect values being reported by length()?  It
> looks like an integer overflow problem.
> 
> Bernard
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