bug in length() function on large text fields?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/18/10 1:35 PM, "Bart Pietercil" <bart.pietercil at cognosis.be> wrote:

Hi Bart,

> if I recall correctly we already talked about this problem ?

It is in mantis?

> length calculation on text fields only correct when length < 255. Was this not
> related to page size of textfield ?

No idea.

Guys please report to mantis.

> 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.

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Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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