Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>>There have been three ideas of what octet_length() sould return:
>>>
>>> 1) compressed on-disk storage length
>>> 2) byte length in server-side encoding
>>> 3) byte length in client-side encoding
>>>
>> Very nice is possibility of choice... What add everything:
>>
>> octet_length_storage()
>> octet_length_server()
>> octet_length_client()
>>
>
>We only need one of octet_length_server() or octet_length_client().
>
And i guess that octet_length_server() is cheaper as it does not do a
convert()
when not needed.
>
>We could emulate the rest using convert() etc.
>--
>Tatsuo Ishii
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