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Re: Deprecate INT(M) in SHOW?

 

I would also disadvise diverging from MySQL here, as the is no particular
reason as far as I can see.

-- Peter

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:17 PM, jocelyn fournier <
jocelyn.fournier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> > Le 23 avr. 2018 à 15:51, Alexander Barkov <bar@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> >
> > Does anybody see any problems if in 10.4 we fix all metadata statements,
> > such as:
> >
> > - SHOW CREATE TABLE t1
> > - DESCRIBE t1
> > - SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
> > not to print the default length for non-ZEROFILL columns?
> >
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> The only issue I can see is for existing applications which try to parse
> the output of those statements and are expecting the length in their regex.
> So I'm not sure it's worth changing this output?
>
>   Jocelyn
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