On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:42:54 -0800, Monty Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/12/2010 12:13 PM, Brian Aker wrote:
> > Here is the question do you want LENGTH as in number of bytes, or in
> > number of characters? Just for VARCHAR?
> 
> I'm going to vote for bytes. The char-length is already listed in the 
> type column (varchar(64)) ... although it could be argued that the user 
> could just know "int - that's 4 bytes" ... if the byte-count was listed 
> in the table it would make some reporting nice/easy.

This would only be bytes as Drizzle thinks it... the engine could be
storing it in anything. So exactly how valuable is it?

-- 
Stewart Smith

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