Hi Domas,
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
varbinary() otoh is varchar with 'binary'
character set (if you define default server charset to be binary, as we do on our 5.x
boxes, all varchar creation will be varbinary).
This back to my original question:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/maintenance/tables.s…
Since wikipedia's mysql servers' default is using the binary charset,
so why not use varbinary instead?