Markus Ostenried wrote:

>
> A feature I would like ... is a character data type of
> variable length. I don't think of Varchar(n) here because it limits
> you to n characters.
>
> ... Also internally run
> length compression is used so I don't think the record layout would
> change that much.

That's true on disk, but the in-memory internal format is fixed length
record buffers. So yes, arbitrary length strings would be a big deal.

>

Regards,


Ann