At 7:57 pm +1000 5/4/01, Neil Lunn wrote:
>I tend to not like this method. Certainly the duplication of field names
>tends to break code. If you are really looking at storing array values in a
>field for some purpose, you would be better off breaking up the scalar in
>perl.
>
>If the idea is just day[1], day[2], etc then name fields day_1, day_2, etc.
>This approach tends to be more portable between databases. Not everything
>supports array fields and if it does it usually isn't like this.
And the array fields seem to be quite limited in usefulness: there
doesn't seem to be much that you can do with one beyond SELECTing its
individual elements by index -- I can't find a way to DELETE or
UPDATE elements.
Oh well, it's been educational. Thanks for all the help!
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