OK, fair enough. In that case I would think that filing a report on 
bugs.mysql.com would be your best way forward.

At 8:32 am +0000 7/7/06, SciBit MySQL Team wrote:
>While you are not wrong, James, is the length member suppose to denote the 
>maximum length of data contained in result's specified column.  NOTE: The 
>result's.  I.e. why give such an arbitrary number of bytes/length when no 
>ENUM's or SET's are even in the result.  The point being, even if you create a 
>table containing 10 INT columns, the result of "show columns from" should show 
>the Type column length of 3 with a maximum data allocation for the 10 rows of 
>30 bytes, and not ~2MB, as is currently the case.

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