I would also disadvise diverging from MySQL here, as the is no particular reason as far as I can see.

-- Peter

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:17 PM, jocelyn fournier <jocelyn.fournier@gmail.com> wrote:


> Le 23 avr. 2018 à 15:51, Alexander Barkov <bar@mariadb.com> a écrit :
>
> Does anybody see any problems if in 10.4 we fix all metadata statements,
> such as:
>
> - SHOW CREATE TABLE t1
> - DESCRIBE t1
> - SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
> not to print the default length for non-ZEROFILL columns?
>

Hi Alexander,

The only issue I can see is for existing applications which try to parse the output of those statements and are expecting the length in their regex.
So I'm not sure it's worth changing this output?

  Jocelyn
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