[geeklog-devel] Geeklog Story Size Limits

[Vincent Furia]

On Nov 23, 2007 2:00 PM, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:
> Jeff Hare wrote:
>
> >What's the chance of bumping the story body type up to MEDIUMTEXT?
>
> I'd like to pass this question on to our database experts: What would be
> the downsides? Would it, for example, require more space even if not used?
>

I don't think we need to update Geeklog.  Very few people use more
than TEXT provides.  For others, its a simple matter of:

ALTER TABLE gl_stories MODIFY bodytext MEDIUMTEXT;

That will not be changed by Geeklog upgrades unless, some day, Geeklog
modifies the type of that column.

-Vinny