Hi!
On Feb 23, Hagen H?pfner wrote:
> Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> > On Feb 23, Hagen H?pfner wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear list,
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> 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 ;-)
Sounds like a good idea.
Could be useful for documentation of MyISAM, indeed.
Regards,
Sergei
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