On 4-1-2017 11:30, Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > 04.01.2017 13:13, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: >> >> "This has the added benefit that tools can use this information to determine >> the data >> type consistently based on type and subtype". > > AFAIU, ticket suggests to match API's subtype also to field's subtype, > in addition to matching it to the field's charset/collation. But IMO it > means that we cannot have other subtypes for strings in the future. I.e. > subtype 4 cannot be anything else than UTF8 and so on. This looks too > much limiting.
My suggestion actually doesn't do that, I just suggested using 1 because it would be the first subtype. Maybe I should not have mentioned CS_BINARY there at all. Mark -- Mark Rotteveel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
