On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 17:33 -0500, John Siracusa wrote:
> I was ignoring strict mode for the purposes of this exploration.  Even
> in "crazy old MySQL mode" I think the "describe table" output should
> more closely match what's returned by DBD::mysql in COLUMN_DEF.

I agree, that sounds like a bug in DESCRIBE to me.  Maybe they are
justifying it by saying that this is an automatic system-wide default,
rather than a column-specific one, but it's still misleading.

- Perrin


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