On Jul 12, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Antony T Curtis wrote:
It would get rid of the val_int/val_uint mess and special case
casting etc that mysql has right now.
I also believe that there are many applications where a 128bit
integer type would be useful but afaik few mainstream dbms support
it natively.
UUIDs, of course.
MD4/MD5/SHA1/SHA256 hashes
IPv6 address
XML tags are usually 16 chars or less
UNIX/PAM usernames are 16 chars or less
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Mark Atwood <http://mark.atwood.name>
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