Re: MySQL 5.0.22 and show columns bug?

2006-07-07 Thread SciBit MySQL Team
://www.scibit.com -Original Message- From: James Harvard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SciBit MySQL Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: mysql@lists.mysql.com mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: [Spam-Junk]Re: MySQL 5.0.22 and show columns bug? Sent: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:50:33 GMT Received: Thu, 06 Jul 2006

Re: MySQL 5.0.22 and show columns bug?

2006-07-07 Thread James Harvard
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 + 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

[Spam-Probable]MySQL 5.0.22 and show columns bug?

2006-07-06 Thread SciBit MySQL Team
Since a couple of recent stable versions back (and more recently, MySQL 5.0.22), MySQL has been returning the column length (C API) of the 'Type' column of a show columns from.. statement as being 196605 (almost 192KB), when this column only really contains data in the region of 10 bytes, if

Re: MySQL 5.0.22 and show columns bug?

2006-07-06 Thread James Harvard
Although I know nothing about C I imagine this is because the 'type' column can contain all the possible values from an ENUM or SET field. James Harvard At 10:30 am + 6/7/06, SciBit MySQL Team wrote: Since a couple of recent stable versions back (and more recently, MySQL 5.0.22), MySQL has