At 6:59 PM -0700 10/23/01, Bob Purvy wrote: >I'm doing just general feasibility studying of embedding MySQL in a >networking product, and I have a question that I haven't been able >to find the answer to after a fair bit of looking > > - is there some way to insert data that is already in INT >UNSIGNED form directly into a table, without converting it into >ASCII and then having it converted back again by the database? (I >know I could use BLOB, but that would lose some of the benefits of >integer-ness.) We would be using the C API.
No. > >This product generates *large* volumes of data, which is currently >all in UINT32 . It would seem to be a large waste of scarce CPU >resources to have to convert every single column to and from ASCII. >(the only issue I could see would be the endian-ness of it, but that >could be managed.) > >Thanks for your help. -- Paul DuBois, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
