Re: Real BITs which use 1 bit in 5.1?

Kevin Burton wrote: A little birdie: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Top10SQLPerformanceTips notes.. "In 5.1 BOOL/BIT NOT NULL type is 1 bit, in previous versions it's 1 byte." Is this true? Hmm, I had wondered about that when someone yelled it out at MySQL Camp... No, it's not true. The

Real BITs which use 1 bit in 5.1?

A little birdie: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Top10SQLPerformanceTips notes.. "In 5.1 BOOL/BIT NOT NULL type is 1 bit, in previous versions it's 1 byte." Is this true? I didn't see a note in the manual.. I assume it would be here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/storage-req