Re:8K limit ? (Score 5)

> my sites all have whole articles, pictures, etc... into a MySQL database.

(Warning: DBA in a previous life - expect pain ;)

I really wouldn't suggest placing text articles, images or other large objects into a database tuple. Modern databases (including PostgreSQL; not sure about MySQL) have support for 'BLOBs' (Binary Large Objects), which allow you to associate very large files and objects with a particular tuple.

The BLOBs are stored as part of the database, but not within the relation itself. This works a *lot* faster than putting the images or text inline with the tuple, and is I suspect partly why the folks at PostgreSQL haven't yet fixed the 8kb limit.