Re: hex constants?

[Paul DuBois]

At 6:30 PM -0600 2000-02-29, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>This doesn't seem to work:
>
>     SET INSERT_ID = 0x90000000;
>
>(I get a syntax error), but this does:
>
>     SET INSERT_ID = 268435456;
>
>Any reason why not?  As far as I can tell, I can't use the 0x90000000+0 hack
>because only values can be given on the RHS of a SET statement (phooey...).


What version of MySQL are you running?  It might be too old to understand
hex constants.

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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped