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[Firebird-docs] Worth changing? : VARCHARS travel between server and client in full.

[Raymond K. <ray...@ch...>]

A conversation in ib-support has:

"
R> Is there a reason not to simply specify all VARCHARs to use the max size
R> in Firebird?

one compelling reason would be that they travel in full-length between
server and client. :-(
"

If true, this seems unnecessary and a big waste of resources.

If, true, is this worth changing?
-- 
Raymond Kennington
Programming Solutions
W2W Team B

Re: [Firebird-docs] Worth changing? : VARCHARS travel between server and client in full.

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi there Raymond,

>> R> Is there a reason not to simply specify all VARCHARs to use
>> R> the max size in Firebird?
>>
>> one compelling reason would be that they travel in full-length
>> between server and client. :-(

> If true, this seems unnecessary and a big waste of resources.
>
> If, true, is this worth changing?

I think so, but the docmakers aren't going to do it :-)

Maybe you meant to post this to firebird-devel instead?


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog