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

[Alexander P. <pes...@ma...>]

On Monday 16 November 2009 16:21:26 Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> 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.

Agreed - when we decide to have more columns, we should better cleanup all 
places. Currently it's better to have uniform usage of datatypes in all over 
firebird.