[development] Why do we need mysql_type for locale.install?

[Edison Wong]

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Hi Folk,

I am studying about the usage of "mysql_type" and "pgsql_type" from 
Schema API. It seems that let us able to select different data type for 
different database backend. Basically, it seems to be a great idea ;-)

BTW, I don't understand why we need it in locale.install. 
{locales_source}.source and {locales_target}.translation both map TEXT 
for other database (says, we only have pgsql in case of D6), but map 
MySQL into BLOB. Do we have any special reason for this different handling?

In case of PostgreSQL, decode BLOB require a manual call for 
db_decode_blob(); BTW, db_decode_blob() for MySQL is just a dummy... 
According to different data type mapping, application level should also 
change their implementation...

Any idea about the detail story of this issue? Is this even a bug? If so 
I would like to give some effort based on this issue. Thanks ;-)

Regard

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Edison Wong
hswong3i at gmail.com
http://edin.no-ip.com/html/
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