On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:25:21 +0200, Martijn Tonies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a questions about "varchar columns" change to "CHAR columns" > > > automatically.
> > See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Silent_column_changes.html > In addition to that - it doesn't really matter as the CHAR datatype > isn't properly implemented in MySQL and behaves the same as > the VARCHAR datatype. I don't believe that is correct. We recently had a very large disk space problem that was solved when we discovered that a column that should have been varchar was instead char, and was taking up excess storage because of it (which a datatype acting like varchar wouldn't do). -- Joe -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
