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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:52:54 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET
Subject:   Re: CVSup upgrade to fix the timestamp bug
Message-ID:  <20010910105254.A4893@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010910112417.C2053@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@ringlet.net on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:24:17AM %2B0300
References:  <20010909123920.G45219-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> <200109092255.f89Mtws48647@vashon.polstra.com> <20010909175836.M30764@curie.physics.purdue.edu> <20010910112417.C2053@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:24:17AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Well, there was a Bugtraq post today about a S1G bug in MySQL (and quite
> possibly other SQL servers as well) and keeping Unix timestamps in
> (var)?char fields :) (not that I really understand why anyone would want
> to keep a Unix timestamp in a character field..)

Character fields are independent from the machine byte order.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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