In the last episode (Dec 03), Mark Maunder said:
> This all started when one of the 16 byte binary primary keys kicked out
> a duplicate key error. It seems mysql does not store the last byte of
> the binary value if it is a space. That is, ascii 32 or hex 20.
>
> How do I force it to store the space? Thanks!
>
> create table testtable ( id binary(16) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY ) ENGINE=MyISAM;
There is no native mysql BINARY type; it's mapped to CHAR(n) BINARY.
CHARS and VARCHARS trim trailing blanks (A known issue, but low
priority I think). Try using a TINYBLOB column type instead.
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