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authorunknown <evgen@moonbone.local>2006-06-14 22:57:00 +0400
committerunknown <evgen@moonbone.local>2006-06-14 22:57:00 +0400
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Merge epotemkin@bk-internal.mysql.com:/home/bk/mysql-4.1-opt
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diff --git a/sql/structs.h b/sql/structs.h
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+++ b/sql/structs.h
@@ -70,7 +70,13 @@ typedef struct st_key_part_info { /* Info about a key part */
Field *field;
uint offset; /* offset in record (from 0) */
uint null_offset; /* Offset to null_bit in record */
- uint16 length; /* Length of key_part */
+ uint16 length; /* Length of keypart value in bytes */
+ /*
+ Number of bytes required to store the keypart value. This may be
+ different from the "length" field as it also counts
+ - possible NULL-flag byte (see HA_KEY_NULL_LENGTH)
+ - possible HA_KEY_BLOB_LENGTH bytes needed to store actual value length.
+ */
uint16 store_length;
uint16 key_type;
uint16 fieldnr; /* Fieldnum in UNIREG */