Hi, Sachin! First: please send questions like this to maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net it's a public mailing list dedicated to MySQL and MariaDB internals, source code, and related things. I am subscribed, so I'll see you mail there, and you may be sure I will, because it won't be accidentally catched by my spam filter, or sorted out in some obscure folder. Furthermore other subscribers will see your question and could reply if I will be not available (e.g. I could be travelling). Thank you. On Mar 14, Sachin Setia wrote:

Thank you sir for your reply but my question is what this pack flag will do and basically what is pack record will you please suggest source file in which i can look into to get more understanding of pack length ,pack flag and pack record

There isn't much I can answer - your question is too generic. "pack_flag" is a set of flags that is stored per field in the frm file and it describes some aspects of the field. Search for "pack_flag" in the source tree. If you ask a specific question, I'll be able to provide a more detailed answer. Regards, Sergei Chief Architect MariaDB and security@mariadb.org