Well, as most of you may know, Google Summer of Code is nearing and I have seen many
MySQL blogs urging people to contribute ideas or mentor projects.


My Idea
So I'm going to suggest an idea and as the title already mentions, I think it would be a good idea to add some new Datatypes. Specifically, a new Email datatype.

Now I already hear you saying "Email is a string, why would you need a datatype for it?", but hear me out.

So basically, I personally, have been dealing a lot with trying to clean email addresses and customer data so that my company can help their biggest client use this data in their new CRM system.

I thought it would have been a good idea to implement an email datatype inside MySQL that already has the standard regex for emails and has a defined varchar for the standard …