From: Ann W. Harrison Date: February 18 2009 12:06am Subject: Re: Patch for bug#42208 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/falcon/541 Message-Id: <499B50FA.6000807@mysql.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Ann W. Harrison wrote: > > > Varbinary is a MySQL invention, so I guess MySQL > gets to set the rules. Should have checked. Varbinary is part of the SQL standard as of 2008. Not '92 or '98, or '03. I'll check the semantics of trailing zeros tomorrow. Cheers, Ann