[TYPO3-dev] BLOBs considered harmful

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
> 
> I would vote for ADODB xml schema. I used it for a while in one project, 
> it really does nice things. However I foresee problems with 
> "multiplyDatabaseFileSize" (or how it was called?) - adodb xml schema is 
> not easy to modify on the fly. But it is not a problem: there is nothing 
> that we cannot solve in typo3 :D

This was only added because Mysql had no real UTF-8 (multibyte char) support.

I think it is ok to raise the requirements to Mysql 4.0 (or even higher). 
If we expect PHP5 we can expect a better DB as well :-)

Masi