Commit 6fa9bb2a authored by arjen@fred.bitbike.com's avatar arjen@fred.bitbike.com
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Added informative tables for column types. Needs more shuffling. 

Few little fixups.
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Docs/manual.texi

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@@ -29476,6 +29476,17 @@ Conversions that occur due to clipping are reported as ``warnings'' for 
@code{ALTER TABLE}, @code{LOAD DATA INFILE}, @code{UPDATE}, and

multi-row @code{INSERT} statements.













@c FIX arjen 2002-08-07 New table, not yet measured for O'Reilly/DocBook













@c FIX also need to shuffle into proper position and adjust text.













@multitable @columnfractions .20 .20 .30 .30













@item @strong{Type}    @tab @strong{Bytes} @tab @strong{From}        @tab @strong{To}













@item @code{TINYINT}   @tab              1 @tab                 -128 @tab                 127













@item @code{SMALLINT}  @tab              2 @tab               -32768 @tab               32767













@item @code{MEDIUMINT} @tab              3 @tab             -8388608 @tab             8388607













@item @code{INT}       @tab              4 @tab          -2147483648 @tab          2147483647













@item @code{BIGINT}    @tab              8 @tab -9223372036854775808 @tab 9223372036854775807













@end multitable









































@node Date and time types, String types, Numeric types, Column types















@subsection Date and Time Types










@@ -30006,6 +30017,16 @@ The string types are @code{CHAR}, @code{VARCHAR}, @code{BLOB}, @code{TEXT},













@code{ENUM}, and @code{SET}.  This section describes how these types work,















their storage requirements, and how to use them in your queries.



























@c FIX arjen 2002-08-07 New table, not yet measured for O'Reilly/DocBook













@c FIX also need to shuffle into proper position and adjust text.













@multitable @columnfractions .40 .30 .30













@item @strong{Type}                          @tab @strong{Max.size} @tab @strong{Bytes}













@item @code{TINYTEXT}   or @code{TINYBLOB}   @tab 2^8-1             @tab            255













@item @code{TEXT}       or @code{BLOB}       @tab 2^16-1 (64K-1)    @tab          65535













@item @code{MEDIUMTEXT} or @code{MEDIUMBLOB} @tab 2^24-1 (16M-1)    @tab       16777215













@item                      @code{LONGBLOB}   @tab 2^32-1 (4G-1)     @tab     4294967295













@end multitable









































@node CHAR, BLOB, String types, String types















@subsubsection The @code{CHAR} and @code{VARCHAR} Types










@@ -49702,7 +49723,7 @@ The MySQL Certification program.













@item Lenz Grimmer















@itemize @bullet















@item













Build and release engineering.













Production (build and release) engineering.















@end itemize





























@item Peter Zaitsev










@@ -50126,7 +50147,7 @@ each individual 4.0.x release.













@itemize @bullet















@item















Fixed bug in multi-table @code{UPDATE}: when updating a table,













do_select confused in reading records from a cache













@code{do_select()} became confused about reading records from a cache.















@item















Fixed bug in multi-table @code{UPDATE} when several fields were referenced















from a single table