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Message #00290
New (by Monty): Change strlen() to LEX_STRING or String (27)
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TASK...........: Change strlen() to LEX_STRING or String
CREATION DATE..: Wed, 27 May 2009, 15:45
SUPERVISOR.....: Monty
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CATEGORY.......: Server-BackLog
TASK ID........: 27 (http://askmonty.org/worklog/?tid=27)
VERSION........: Server-5.2
STATUS.........: Un-Assigned
PRIORITY.......: 60
WORKED HOURS...: 0
ESTIMATE.......: 100 (hours remain)
ORIG. ESTIMATE.: 100
PROGRESS NOTES:
DESCRIPTION:
Remove all strlen() from MariaDB.
The objects we are using strlen() on should be changed to either LEX_STRING or
String.
Reasons for doing this cleanup:
- Faster, smaller code
- Safer for strings/character sets that contains \0
- Allows us to change c_ptr() to ptr() in some cases
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