Re: Can't get more than 255 chars out of memo field in Acc

Where can we document this information?  I don't see it on the techdocs
site.


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Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> 11/27/2002 10:46:51 AM, Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >This raises an issue for Access developers which, in
> >spite of searching archives, FAQs etc. I have not seen
> >explicitly stated anywhere.
> >
> >I have found that, to be able to use both "text" and
> >"memo" types within Access, linking to tables in a
> >PostgreSQL database, the following must be done:
> >* table definitions in PostgreSQL must use "varchar"
> >for fields desired to be "text" in Access, and "text"
> >for fields desired to be "memo" in Access, and:
> >* "Text As LongVarChar" must be checked in the DSN.
>
>     This turns out to be what my problem is I think. I do have the attribute defined as a 'text'
> type in my postgres table definition but when linked to Access it still appears as 'text' in the table
> definition. When I try to alter this setting to memo in Access it complains that it "can't save property
> changes for linked tables". How to I get Access to recognize my Postgres 'text' attributes as memo
> fields?
>
>     thanx & later,
>
>         Ben Scherrey
>
>
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