[TYPO3-core] RFC: replace tinytext fields by varchar(255)

Martin Kutschker martin.kutschker-n0spam at no5pam-blackbox.net
Mon Mar 12 20:38:28 CET 2007


Karsten Dambekalns schrieb:
>>
>> * remove all UNSIGNED definitions of INTs
>> * replace all BLOB with TEXT fields
> 
> Fine with me. Integers have their unsigned dropped anyway for DBAL.
> Note: For MySQL we need to take care that range is adapted if needed - 
> unsigned tinyint stores 0..256 whereas signed tinyint stores -128...128 
> and therefore would break by simply removing the unsigned attribute.

I know. But if needs to run on a DBAL system with the changed range it 
must also run on Mysql that way. So it's ok to remove UNSIGNED from COre 
and sysext as we expect or code to run an all platforms.

Masi


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