Ever run through an integer before?
One of the early design decisions in Drizzle was we
were going to make the decision of field types simpler.
24bit ints? Multiple blob sizes? Display ranges on numeric types?
Floats over doubles?
Why do we have types?
Good storage.
Constraint
We took those two principles and made a couple of
decisions.
1) Blow the constraint, we throw an error.
2) Good strorage means not only size, but that we give the right
choices and no more.
Drizzle lacks a TINYBLOB, MEDIUMBLOB, and LARGEBLOB (every time I
see this my mind flips to the Goldilocks story...).
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01
2008