Hi!
LENGTH we need to keep. That would blow compatibility pretty badly.
Cheers,
-Brian
On Jul 6, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:09:08AM -0000, Devananda vdv wrote:
Arjen's comment on facebook got me thinking about how much I don't
like
LENGTH() because it's ambiguous. I've griped on this issue in other
languages too, particularly PHP. Without checking the
documentation, to the
casual western user, it seems like a character count because
LENGTH('abc')
== CHAR_LENGTH('abc').
I'm also not a fan of OCTET_LENGTH... "byte" is a much more
commonly used
term ;)
What do you think about removing LENGTH() and renaming OCTET_LENGTH
to
BYTE_LENGTH?
Pretty simple to have BYTE_LENGTH be an alias.... although removing
LENGTH does change SQL compatibility. So I wonder what others think...
--
Stewart Smith
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