On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Stewart Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:11:23 +0300, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> > wrote: >> This is a gdb print of a drizzled::String: >> >> {Ptr = 0x90c66f0 "hello", str_length = 5, Alloced_length = 0, alloced >> = false, str_charset = 0x876f000} >> >> Why is there a str_charset? Does it actually convey a meaning, or is >> it a MySQL legacy? > > mostly collation. although charset can be binary or utf8. i.e. binary > can contain things that are not valid utf8 (i.e. BLOB rather than TEXT)
You mean the meaning of the value in that field is actually charset+collation, where charset is always utf8 or binary? henrik -- [email protected] +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
