On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Yes we do (and can) expect to find text among the bytes. We have searches running, we are just running into the maximum size issues for certain rows.
you can use substr() to be safe, if schema change doesn't available
Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake
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