You have stumbled across the secret. No, there is no difference at all as the calculations suggested here confirm.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/storage-requirements.html On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Waynn Lue <waynn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I was building a table for storing email addresses today and ran into an > issue that I couldn't find an answer for using Google. If I declare the > column as a VARCHAR (this is an InnoDB table), does it matter what size I > declare it as if it's between 1 and 255? I know there's an extra byte of > storage once it goes above 255 because of the length, but is there a storage > difference between VARCHAR(100) and VARCHAR(255)? Obviously there's a > functional difference in what gets cut off when I try to store into that > table, but is that the only difference? > > Thanks for any insight, > Waynn > -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com "May you live every day of your life." Jonathan Swift Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
