From: Martin B. Jespersen
Date: March 17 1999 4:01pm
Subject: Re: configuration question
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Christian Mack wrote:
> 
> You can only work on byte basis.
> 
> Tschau
> Christian
> 

Hmm this one might be for monty, not sure:

Is there any chance that a bittype could be implemented in MySQL e.g. called
FLAG where length was bit-length?
It is an awfull waste of space to use a byte where you only need a bit...

Here i am not only thinking about diskspace but also bandwidth since mysql
bitwise operators are limited i will have to retrieve the byte and do bit-math
on it in a serverside scripting language like php and then update the database
again with the byte. Now if this has to be done all the time it is a
considerable waste of bandwith i would think, please corect me if i am way off
here.


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