Tõnu Samuel wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 15:15, Alexander Barkov wrote: > > >> pos<<8 + section >> >>where pos (3bytes) is word posion in document, >>and section (1byte) is section number: >> title, body, etc >> > > Why they are in single field? This somewhat limits freedom of choice of > searches and MySQL index usage. If there is no special reason to keep > them in single field, can I make patch to split them into two fields? At > least from MySQL side there is support for 3-byte and 1-byte integers. >
The problem is that other databases do not have these field types. So we won't split them. -- bar ___________________________________________ If you want to unsubscribe send "unsubscribe general" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
