Re: Varchars Vs. Chars on Read Only Table

2002-01-24 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:06:57PM -0500, Michael Stearne wrote: > > When doing selects on a read-only myISAM packed table, are varchar > fields still slower than char fields? Since it's essentially a MyISAM table with compression done at the row-level, I'd expect so. But the difference has to b

Varchars Vs. Chars on Read Only Table

2002-01-24 Thread Michael Stearne
When doing selects on a read-only myISAM packed table, are varchar fields still slower than char fields? Thanks, Michael - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql