Subject Re: AW: AW: [firebird-support] binary or string?
Author Ann W. Harrison
At 06:47 PM 12/11/2004, Alexander Gräf wrote:

>But direct comparisons are needed with natural joins I guess

I don't think so. The matching value from one record is turned
into index key format and matched with the index from the other
table. None the less, an eight byte (or less) binary value
should probably be stored in a binary field.

Regards,

Ann