MEDIUMTEXT
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Overview
String for variable-length text data up to 16,777,215 bytes.
DETAILS
SYNONYMS
The following are synonyms for MEDIUMTEXT:
LONG
LONG CHAR VARYING
LONG CHARACTER VARYING
LONG VARCHAR
LONG VARCHARACTER
EXAMPLES
MEDIUMTEXT
Example of MEDIUMTEXT:
CREATE TABLE mediumtext_example (
description VARCHAR(20),
example MEDIUMTEXT
) DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; -- One byte per char makes the examples clearer
INSERT INTO mediumtext_example VALUES
('Normal foo', 'foo'),
('Trailing spaces foo', 'foo '),
('NULLed', NULL),
('Empty', ''),
('Maximum', RPAD('', 16777215, 'x'));
SELECT description, LENGTH(example) AS length
FROM mediumtext_example;
+---------------------+----------+
| description | length |
+---------------------+----------+
| Normal foo | 3 |
| Trailing spaces foo | 9 |
| NULLed | NULL |
| Empty | 0 |
| Maximum | 16777215 |
+---------------------+----------+
Data Too Long
When SQL_MODE is strict (the default) a value is considered "too long" when its length exceeds the size of the data type, and an error is generated.
Example of data too long behavior for MEDIUMTEXT:
TRUNCATE mediumtext_example;
INSERT INTO mediumtext_example VALUES
('Overflow', RPAD('', 16777216, 'x'));
ERROR 1406 (22001): Data too long for column 'example' at row 1
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EXTERNAL REFERENCES
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