It seems to me that the 64bit version will be completely incompatible with the old 32bit databases/blobs. Alex how will you go about migrating all the old databases?
/Henrik On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Tomas Hlavaty<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > >> database file number is encoded in a kind of hexadecimal number, which >> uses @, A, B .. O instead of 0, 1, 2, .. F. The object ID is encoded in >> octal. This has the advantage that the dash '-' as a separator is not >> needed any more, because the file number digits 0 .. 7 are different >> from the letters A .. O. With that, an object might look like {1}, >> {123}, {A45}, {CDE7654321} and so on. > > why do you need to mix hexadecimal and octal? =A0I imagine having the > second part in hex would be possible too. =A0E.g. using 0-F for the > second part and G.. for the first would work too and the names would > be shorter? > > Cheers, > > Tomas > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=3dunsubscribe > -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
