2009/6/24 Dinesh B Vadhia <dineshbvad...@hotmail.com>: > Hi Vince > > That's terrific! Once a string is compressed with gzip.zlib does it make a > difference whether it is stored it in a TEXT or BLOB column? > > Dinesh > > >From the MySQL language reference: """A BLOB is a binary large object that can hold a variable amount of data. The four BLOB types TINYBLOB, BLOB, MEDIUMBLOB, and LONGBLOB differ only in the maximum length of the values they can hold.
The four TEXT types TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, and LONGTEXT correspond to the four BLOB types and have the same maximum lengths and storage requirements. The only difference between BLOB and TEXT types is that sorting and comparison is performed in case-sensitive fashion for BLOB values and case-insensitive fashion for TEXT values. In other words, a TEXT is a case-insensitive BLOB.""" gzip.zlib outputs binary data, so you should use BLOB. Pickle, I believe, outputs an ascii string, so should use TEXT. Hope that makes it a bit clearer. -- Richard "Roadie Rich" Lovely, part of the JNP|UK Famile www.theJNP.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
