On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:47:57PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:44:30PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > The attached patch fixes DBD::mysql column_info() method for MySQL 4.1 > > and makes some other general improvements. > > > > The change was needed because while MySQL <= 4.0 DESCRIBE TABLE > > reports a "varchar(10) binary" column as "varchar(10) binary", > > MySQL 4.1 reports it as "varbinary(10)". > > Hold that. It may not be true. I'm trying to reproduce the issue > to check it (and identify the circumstances).
Actually that's not relevant. The patch is valid and required for handling the binary and varbinary types that MySQL 4.1+ may report. It should be applied. Tim.
