@Philip .. I have one more question.  Can libmysql as distributed by Oracle handle those extended precision DATE(TIME)STAMPs - or will only the one distributed with MariaDB do properly?? 

-- Peter

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 16:51, Philip Stoev <philip@stoev.org> wrote:
That is fine then!  Only a little confusing thing is that as far as I know
TIMESTAMP(14) is supported in MySQL 5.1 (and abandoned in MySQL 5.5) - so
probably still in MariaDB as well.  So maybe N should rather have been 17 or
20 (the byte length)?

TIMESTAMP(14) has been removed in MariaDB as well.