Question

I am developing a Ruby on Rails application that stores a lot of text in a LONGTEXT column. I noticed that when deployed to Heroku (which uses PostgreSQL) I am getting insert exceptions due to two of the column sizes being too large. Is there something special that must be done in order to get a tagged large text column type in PostgreSQL?

These were defined as “string” datatype in the Rails migration.

Answer 1

If you want the longtext datatype in PostgreSQL as well, just create it. A domain will do:

CREATE DOMAIN longtext AS text;

CREATE TABLE foo(bar longtext);