Re: Packed Data in MyISAM

[Sergei Golubchik]

Hi!

On Feb 23, Hagen H?pfner wrote:
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> Dear list,
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> this time I have only a short question ... why are varchar attributes
> packed but text attributes not?

Because one may want a data type with space-stripping or without.
But in 5.1 varchars are not packed either.
 
Regards,
Sergei

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