[rt-devel] RT2 - longblob Curiosity

[Jesse]

I can't remember anything off the top of my head, actually.
I'll try to investigate this and see if there's a good reason to change and
what the impact on existing sites would be.

        -j

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:27:28AM +0200, Michael Tratz [ml-mails] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have changed the Content and Headers columns in the Attachments table 
> from longblob
> to longtext in order to facilitate case-insensitive searches.
> 
> Before making this change, I consulted the MySQL manual. It states:
> 
>  >>>
> 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.
> <<<<
> 
> The RT developers are extremely clever :-) and I'm sure there was a very 
> good reason that the columns were set to longblob.
> 
> Anyone know why?
> 
> Very curious,
> 
> Michael Tratz
> 
> 
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