On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Planet Drizzle
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Almost all the conversions for WordPress 3.1 revolve around the date.  When 
>> creating a draft or any other table entry WordPress uses the date 
>> ’0000-00-00′ in several columns.  In Drizzle we try to be closer to the SQL 
>> standards, and this means that the first valid date is ’0001-01-01′.  A 
>> large majority of the patch is this particular conversion for the queries 
>> throughout the PHP code.  The rest is to do with schema creation, to be 
>> specific:
> 
> Shouldn't NULL be used for this purpose?

Yes, in fact, I thought that's what part of the changes involved, though I 
haven't finished my own conversion (or have I touched it in a while).

>> Drizzle has no LONGTEXT, TINYTEXT, etc…  Just TEXT
> 
> Aren't those aliases for text in Drizzle? If not, why not?

I believe that has something to do with simplifying parsing and things of that 
sort. Not having aliases simplifies the code-path, or at least that's what I 
recall.

> 
>> Drizzle doesn’t support multiple character sets, just UTF-8, so we need to 
>> drop the character set part of schema creation
> 
> Drizzle should accept charset = utf-8 (pseudo).

Well...*watches debate to fire up* :)
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