Roland opened a bug "Documentation indicates some MYSQL_FIELD->flags are deprecated which aren't."
The MySQL protocol uses the string values of ENUM
-
and SET
-fields. To indicate that this string
originated from a ENUM- or SET-column the ENUM_FLAG
and SET_FLAG
are used in the Column Defintion
Same as Roland I wonder why they are deprecated. Is it something new? Something old?
Searching through the history
In an attempt to find out since when ENUM
s are sent
as MYSQL_TYPE_STRING
+ ENUM_FLAG
I
grepped through the oldest MySQL release that can be found in the
bzr tree:
mysql-3.23.22-beta$ find . -type f | xargs grep -n ENUM_FLAG …[Read more]