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Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> Hi!
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> 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?
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> Because one may want a data type with space-stripping or without.
> But in 5.1 varchars are not packed either.
Interesting, but I believe that you did not changed the MYI-Structure.
Therefore, there should be some more not longer used entries starting
from 5.1 ;-) ... Perhaps and if you are interested, i'll compile a
list of things that might not longer be in use in 5.1. This might be
interesting for all fellows outside that try to understand whats
going on in MyISAM ;-)
Hagen
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