[Rt-devel] schema thought

[Nicholas Clark]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:46:03AM -0700, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> 
> On Jul 10, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> >Is there any reason not to
> >
> >  alter table Groups change Instance Instance int unsigned not null;
> >
> >currently Instance is always a number (either some sort of Id, or  
> >1), yet
> >it's stored in a varchar(64)
> >
> 
> (I removed SQL comments from the grep below)
> 
> 
> pinglin:~/svk/rt-3.6/etc jesse$ grep Instance schema.* |grep -v INDEX
> schema.Informix:        Instance        INTEGER DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
> schema.Oracle:  Instance        NUMBER(11,0) DEFAULT 0 -- NOT NULL
> schema.Pg:  Instance integer,
> schema.SQLite:  Instance integer
> schema.Sybase:  Instance integer,
> schema.mysql:  Instance integer,

Aha - so this is legacy from an installation that was upgraded from 3.4?

Nicholas Clark