> This isn’t about being spec-compliant anymore. I need to know the thought process behind this decision. And also please fix it. Using php or something and no

> This isn’t about being spec-compliant anymore. I need to know the thought process behind this decision. And also please fix it. Using php or something and not paying attention? Read the value from database, by default php casts all colum types to string in retrieval, except for a null value, or if you tell it to try to match column types to php types.