Re: Viewing TEXT objects

[Dan Halbert <halbert(at)halwitz(dot)org>]

mad rug wrote:
> Yes, that's how Ray said.
>
> "88352" is not the data I have in that entry, it is some plain text 
> data. This data can be quite large, so I use TEXT instead of CHAR/VARCHAR.
>
> I'm puzzled how can this seem like some unusual situation... I thought 
> that it was the way pgAdmin returned large objects (to avoid big 
> unecessary loads or filling the screen with data that most of the time 
> is not essential), and so it was only a matter of calling some 
> function or changing some pgAdmin preference, but none of you seem to 
> have experienced this before.
When you say "quite large", about how long are the strings?

Do you get the right data if you use psql?

Dan