Description of problem:

I have a small MySQL database with HTML articles in a 'text' field.  The 'text' field is datatype MEDIUMTEXT.

When using PHP's mysql_fetch_assoc() function, the length of data returned appears to be stuck at the 14-bit maximum, of 16,384 characters.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# php -v
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Nov 13 2010 16:05:12) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group

# rpm -q php
php-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3

# rpm -q mysql-server
mysql-server-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:

Use the following code...

<?php

// selectdb stuff assumed...

$query_article = "SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id = \"$id\"";
$result_article = mysql_query($query_article) or die(mysql_error());
$row_article = mysql_fetch_assoc($result_article);

$fieldlen = strlen($row_article['text']);

echo $fieldlen; // always 16384 for 'text' field where data exceeds 16384 characters

?>
  
Actual results:

16384

Expected results:

>16384

Additional info: