Andrey Zhakov wrote: > --- On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Brian Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: >> >>> Also, Roy is absolutely correct about virtual being a >> property of a >>> column, not a type. I'm sure it was implemented >> this way because it >>> was too difficult to do a more elegant way, but the point >> is a good >>> one. :) >> >> Internal types vs return types is a mess. Tack on to this >> translation types... >> > > The implementation difficulties Jay mentioned were storing the new > column information in frm files. The backward compatibility of the > frm files was/is a requirement for MySQL (for which the original vcol > code was written). Is it so for Drizzle *now*? If not, then extending > the frm file format might be a way to go...
Actually - even better than that, we're replacing frm altogether. Brian has been working on this and it's not complete yet, but once it is, we'll have a protobuf-based frm replacement. The protobuf code is already in the trunk, btw, in drizzled/serialize/table.proto if you want to take a look at it. Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
