On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Philip Stoev <pst...@askmonty.org> wrote: > Henrik, > > You are right, this function seems as deterministic as the rest of the > string functions, that is, it still depends on the default character set and > such. > > I think the reason it is not allowed is that when this patch was > considered/developed/reviewed, no systematic review of all the functions was > made. When I did my own review (which resulted in bug #608641 , I forgot do > consider XML functions). > > I have added your observation to bug 608641, which list other deficiencies > in mariadb virtual columns. My understanding is that the final decision was > to release virtual columns as they are, and fix any deficiencies that occur > as actual customer complaints in a future version.
Thanks, I'm fine with that. ..assuming of course that this counts as one of those complaints :-) Actually, SUBSTR() works as a good substitute for me in the meantime. henrik -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +358-40-5697354 www.openlife.cc _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
