From 5f51d409ccda1033a41256dfc28e46bc6923521d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:35:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] - add documentation note for [ticket:1841]

---
 lib/sqlalchemy/types.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py
index 1824a9b3fd..46cf9e2a14 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py
@@ -1184,7 +1184,9 @@ class Text(String):
 
     In SQL, usually corresponds to CLOB or TEXT. Can also take Python
     unicode objects and encode to the database's encoding in bind
-    params (and the reverse for result sets.)
+    params (and the reverse for result sets.)  In general, TEXT objects
+    do not have a length; while some databases will accept a length
+    argument here, it will be rejected by others.
 
     """
     __visit_name__ = 'text'
-- 
2.47.2