Re: OCTET_LENGTH is wrong

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

>>>There have been three ideas of what octet_length() sould return:
>>>
>>>    1) compressed on-disk storage length
>>>    2) byte length in server-side encoding
>>>    3) byte length in client-side encoding
>>>
>> Very nice is possibility of choice... What add everything:
>>
>>    octet_length_storage()
>>    octet_length_server()
>>    octet_length_client()
>>
>
>We only need one of octet_length_server() or octet_length_client().
>
And i guess that octet_length_server() is cheaper as it does not do a 
convert()
when not needed.

>
>We could emulate the rest using convert() etc.
>--
>Tatsuo Ishii
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