> Furthermore, it appaers as if buil;ding indices on varchar fields are
> *much* slower. Probably because the changes to how they're stored on
> disk. I suspect text willalso be slower. Didn't get to do much other
> testing yet (still building indices..), but if I notice other strange
> things, I'll lt them know to all of you (sorry for the mis-spellings, my
> compu isn't very responsive att the moment)..
[Moved to hackers list.]
Is varchar/text slower than it used to be, or slower than char()?
Should just be slower than char(), not slower than old code.
>
> btw. at what time do you expect 6.3 to be released? Will the goal of
> march 1st be reached?
March 1 is still target.
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