[Phpmyadmin-devel] about 'binary' attribute

Michal Cihar nijel at users.sourceforge.net
Sun Feb 16 13:19:05 CET 2003


On Friday 14 February 2003 16:56, Marc Delisle wrote:
> > By the way, what do we need this binary checkbox for?
>
> To transform the data for a safer INSERT. But I don't know the impact
> if we were transforming even the non-binary data.

Probably none, I just wanted to keep old behaviour ;-). The only thing where 
it could hurt is uploading text file and you want to convert its charset, but 
it doesn't seem to be much useful. As I think more about the checkbox, it 
will probably only cause problems... Okay to remove it?

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	Michal Cihar
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