Hi Domas,

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]> wrote:
> varbinary() otoh is varchar with 'binary' character set (if you define 
> default server charset to be binary, as we do on our 5.x boxes, all varchar 
> creation will be varbinary).
>

This back to my original question:

http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/maintenance/tables.sql?view=markup

Since wikipedia's mysql servers' default is using the binary charset,
so why not use varbinary instead?

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