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Asked: 2026-05-11T07:02:46+00:00

The SQL… UPDATE Threads t SET t.Content = ( SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(a.Content ORDER BY a.PageID

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The SQL…

UPDATE Threads t  SET t.Content = (     SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(a.Content ORDER BY a.PageID SEPARATOR '<!-- pagebreak -->')      FROM MSarticlepages a     WHERE a.ArticleID = t.MSthreadID GROUP BY a.ArticleID )

As you can see it takes all of an article’s pages (which are each stored as longtext in separate rows) and GROUP_CONCATs them into a single longtext row. The problem is the results are only so many characters and then it gets completely truncated, losing about 90% of the contents. Does CONCAT not handle longtext very well or is there something else I am doing wrong?

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  1. According to the MySQL manual, the maximum length of GROUP_CONCAT is defined by the group_concat_max_len system variable, which defaults to 1024.

    This value can be increased, by using the following command:

    SET group_concat_max_len = <int>

    It should be noted, however, that the value of group_concat_max_len is itself limited by the value of another system variable, max_allowed_packet, which defaults to 1,048,576.

    This value can be increased to a maximum of 1,073,741,824, using the same syntax:

    SET max_allowed_packet = <int>
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