Type in the text field descriptions MySQL
| Field Type |
Store the number of bytes |
| TINYTEXT |
256 |
| TEXT |
65535 |
| MEDIUMTEXT |
16777215 |
| LONGTEXT |
4294967295 |
varchar, and text type of comparison:
varchar in MySQL maximum number of bytes stored as 65535, in MySQL, a character takes 3 bytes, type varchar requires 1 ~ 2 bytes of storage field length. Therefore, type varchar maximum number of characters stored (65535-2) / 3 = 21,844 characters.
text and the number of bytes of storage varchar same maximum number of bytes, so it can be stored 21,844 characters.