Martijn Tonies wrote:
| Warning | 1264 | Out of range value adjusted for column 'a' at row 1
Could be me ... but isn't this a little too late?
eg: AFTER you have lost your data?
IMO, it should raise an error UNLESS you force it to truncate the data.
This would contradict the "MySQL design philosophy" (others call it
simply "gotcha") that the user should know what he's doing and the
DBMS tries its best to obey. Consider this (version 4.1.14):
Yeah yeah ... so the MySQL design philosophy is that users
never make mistakes...
Even in more serious cases MySQL silently "modifies" data and structures:
A large database with an INTEGER column with NULL-'values' allowed was
modified to include this field in the PRIMARY key. The column definition
was automagically modified to NOT NULL and all NULL-'values' where
converted to 0 (zero).
Yeah, emmm, well,.... we actually used the NULLs as "no value" (like it
is supposed to be used AFAIK) and there was no way anymore to
distinguish between NULL and 0. Luckily this was done on a test database
and we only had to spend half an hour or so to restore the table from a
backup.
It would have been very nice to know of this action before it was
completed, to say the least.
If a value doesn't fit (in the "domain" of "tinyint"), an exception
should be raised. Plain and simple.
I fully agree. Maybe an option SQL_IGNORE_WARNINGS or something along
those lines should be introduced to force the execution of such queries.
At least most users will be prevented from shooting themselves in the
foot unless they specificly specify to do so.
Regards, Jigal.
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