- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:27:29 -0400
- To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>, Indic Community <public-i18n-indic@w3.org>, CJK discussion <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>
"Martin J. Dürst" scripsit: > The main reason for an entry being too long is that it has to fit > into a fixed-length field in a database. Ironically, most database systems store all fields as variable-length internally, and only impose the fixed-length limit for backward compatibility with older database systems, in terms of which SQL was defined. We could all throw away all fixed-length fields tomorrow, and nobody would be one bit worse off. -- Henry S. Thompson said, / "Syntactic, structural, John Cowan Value constraints we / Express on the fly." cowan@ccil.org Simon St. Laurent: "Your / Incomprehensible http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Abracadabralike / schemas must die!"
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