Roberto Spadim <[email protected]> writes: > well, another doubts that i had some time ago reading unireg source... > > 1)why it have a 64k limit? that's a logical limit (a limit in int variable > or char or something like it)? or just a "well i think 64k is a good > 'constant' limit"?
2^16 is why there's that limit. > 2)why we "still" with this "old" unireg format? > i know that someone must start the new format and it will not be compatible > with mysql... > but there's any raw idea or a issue in mdev or lauchpad about changing .frm > format or creating a new one? > > maybe something more human readable YAML or JSON, and a space for engine > information https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3936 See my other post: Drizzle has a protobuf based format. It's non trivial to make the server behave with this though. It appears there's some code in MariaDB to construct server data structures from a SQL statement though, so perhaps that's more usable. -- Stewart Smith
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