Hello,
on 03/07/2007 06:00 AM mother_taraza said the following:
> Hi:
>
> I'm new to MetaL and wish to ask you guys something that has been
> puzzling me over the last two days.
>
> I'm using the lastest stable MySQL 5 release (comunity edition) +
> Apache (with PHP -also the latest-). I've read the documentation quite
> deeply but when trying to create the MetaNews sample database...
> install.php warns about not being able to give a text column a default
> value. Such thing it explicitly banned in the MySQL docs... so I'm
> afraid MySQL 5 it is not compatible with MetaL...
> Could this be true?
>
> I'm quite interested in using MetaStorage for my next personal
> project(s) so I'll be glad to hear from you ASAP.
If you do not specify a text variable length, it will attempt to create
a table with a TEXT field. TEXT fields are basically character LOBs, so
they may not have default values.
If you specify a variable length, it will create a VARCHAR field that
can have a default value.
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Regards,
Manuel Lemos
Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator
http://www.metastorage.net/PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
http://www.phpclasses.org/
