This has been puzzling me. At first I thought it was something that Navicat was doing but I also tried in EMS MySQL and it does the same.
If I set the type of a field to varchar and set the length to anything less than 4 it will get converted to a char type of the same length. Now I know that char is faster. I read it can be up to 50% faster but I am curious why I am prevented from having a varchar of length less than 4? Is it prohibitively expensive to do this in MySQL? Is it such a bad idea that they simply don't allow you to do it? Inquiring minds want to know. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stormblade (Shaolin Code Warrior) Software Developer (15+ Years Programming exp.) My System: http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=1683 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
