On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:06:57PM -0500, Michael Stearne wrote: > > When doing selects on a read-only myISAM packed table, are varchar > fields still slower than char fields?
Since it's essentially a MyISAM table with compression done at the row-level, I'd expect so. But the difference has to be relatively small. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 21 days, processed 505,660,680 queries (267/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
