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Re:Old, Good Database Design by nickpeterson on Monday September 14, 2020 @04:26PM (#24474717)
Until some user inserts 100MB in a single column of a single row.
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Re:Old, Good Database Design by simonw on Monday September 14, 2020 @04:28PM (#24474752)
I'd rather guard against that in my input validation application logic than pick the wrong value when I'm designing my table and have to deal with fixing that later on.
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