On 4 Oct 2004 at 23:09, Roman Rokytskyy wrote:

> Probably I would introduce new data type BINARY(n) of maximum size
> 32000 bytes content of which would be stored on the database page
> (that would be VARCHAR type without all character information, like
> charset, collation, etc.) whose content is sent over the wire together

AFAIK you can do that already without new datatype, just use VARCHAR with
character set OCTETS.

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