Re: [Firebird-devel] Adding NOT NULL fields with DEFAULT

[Adriano d. S. F. <adr...@gm...>]

Claudio Valderrama C. escreveu:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adriano dos Santos Fernandes [mailto:adr...@gm...] 
>> Sent: Domingo, 15 de Noviembre de 2009 21:15
>>
>> I now want to encode it as follow:
>> 	numberOfFields: USHORT
>> 	list of Ods::Descriptor
>> 	numberOfFieldsWithDefault: USHORT
>> 	list of (<fieldId: USHORT><Ods::Descriptor><data: 
>> dsc_length bytes>)
>>     
>
> What about using ULONG instead of USHORT for whatever extension needed in
> the future? I know some SAS tests that use a very high amount of fields and
> it seems it's not pure lab testing.
There are many changes needed to support more than 64K columns. :-) I 
think have partial support for it in the ODS is not good.

And more than 64K column is also not needed IMHO.


Adriano