Mark Atwood wrote: > I say rip it out > > It's confusing to users. they think it's either a constraint, or it > actually saves storage.
++ Also, I think we can either have a mysqldump_to_drizzledump tool... and/or we can have a dbdump tool that can speak Drizzle and MySQL (and postgres? - maybe I'm reaching) and dump to an appropriate target syntax... > On Jul 23, 2008, at 7:57 AM, Brian Aker wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I've always thought this as well, but I have no strong opinion on it. >> >> Realize that by dropping the () bit from INT you create an >> incompatibility with mysqldump (of which we have plenty already). >> >> Cheers, >> -Brian >> >> On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:32 AM, Arjen Lentz wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Can we get rid of the (n) in INT(n) nonsense? >>> I'll admit I've made use of it in combo with ZEROFILL, but really I >>> was being lazy, other formatting was done in the app, and thus I'd be >>> happy losing both the (n) and the ZEROFILL completely. The db should >>> not be involved in output formatting. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Arjen. >>> -- >>> Arjen Lentz, Founder @ Open Query >>> Training and Expertise for MySQL in Australia and New Zealand >>> http://openquery.com.au/training/ (ph. +61-7-3103 0809) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________________ >> Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org >> Seattle, Washington >> http://krow.net/ <-- Me >> http://tangent.org/ <-- Software >> _______________________________________________________ >> You can't grep a dead tree. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
