Brian Aker wrote: > Hi! > > Is VARBINARY useful? > > You can have a 64K binary object that we will sort based on the bits. It > does mean you could look up a record via another one... though that > would be pretty expensive compared to just using a precomputed MD5. > > The saving grace of this thing is if you didn't want UTF8 you could just > use it.. though the sort would be all FUBAR because of case.
I have no need for varbinary. On the other hand - it is sort of nice to have a distinction between string and byte[] in Java... I agree that sorting on this would be useless, though. I've never actually chosen to use it myself, though. > Cheers, > -Brian > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > 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
