Re: [pmacct-discussion] numeric MySQL scheme

2007-09-03 Thread Paolo Lucente
Hi Sven, i remember having done a simple patch to address this issue in the past, so i perfectly see your point and encourage you to go ahead with it. On one side that patch was not really portable on the newer versions; also it seems to have totally gone lost now - can't find it anymore. The wor

[pmacct-discussion] numeric MySQL scheme

2007-08-24 Thread Sven Anderson
Hi, I'm going to write a patch to have a numeric MySQL scheme, as I think it is not very optimal to have mac_*, ip_* and ip_proto as strings. PostgreSQL is better here with special types, but the performance of MySQL is a lot better in my setup. Is it going to be very difficult? Any hints? Sha