On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Brian Aker wrote: > Hi! > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Steven Roussey wrote: > >> Well, boo. Well maybe compressed columns unpacked at the client can >> make it back in some day... > > It wouldn't be that hard.
I think it would be neat to see the client API do even more. The client API might be the perfect place to put some of the more advanced column types (such as IPv6 as an example). Since some of that is considered presentation stuff, having that done on the client API side makes sense and still ends up being less hassle for the application developers who just want to store and retrieve, say, IPv6, without having to do anything special. The client API could simply do the translation to and from IPv6 formatting to bigint. More complex types than that might be interesting but, in general, having the client API do the heavy lifting for some of these sorts of things would be awesome. Foreign keys might be another such example. I'm just throwing out ideas here. And, to be fair, it's before coffee :) Tim _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
