Paul,

> It would be really nice if both used a packed set of 1 bit
> fields, so a 32bit int would
> contain up to 32 booleans. However this might be a lot of
> work, especially if all of
> the pseudo booleans in the system tables were changed to real
> booleans.

These days disk space is very very very cheap, so what's the real cost
of 2/4 bytes per boolean?

Answer: A !lot! less than trying to make the engine 'bit twiddle' for
space optimization!


Sean