[smogo]

this sounds good idea : more functionnality as no limit to WP count, and space saved as empty WP account for nothing. Using correct indexes could keep overhead to a minimum.

Also, it relieves the error prone 'what value for an empty waypoint ? is it NULL, " ", 0 ?'

unfortunatly, this can not be done without changing the code AFAIK, as you cant retrieve multiple lines data across a single line, what would leave the code untouched (but i may need SQL lessons)

example using a wp table :
create table wp (grid_id int(11),number int(4), x, float, y float, z float);
insert into wp values (1, 1, 7,8, 34.5, -5.0);
insert into wp values (1, 1, 8,9, 21.5, -5.1);

bool Database::GetWaypoints(int16 grid, int8 num, char* data) {
    char *query = 0;
  char errbuf[MYSQL_ERRMSG_SIZE];
    MYSQL_RES *result;
    MYSQL_ROW row;
  if (RunQuery(query, MakeAnyLenString(&query,"SELECT type,type2,concat(x," ",y," ",z) from grid where id = %i and grid.id=wp.grid_id and wp.number=%i", grid,num),errbuf,&result)) {
    safe_delete_array(query);
    if (mysql_num_rows(result) == 1) {
      row = mysql_fetch_row(result);
      strcpy(data, row[2]);
      mysql_free_result(result);
      return true;
    }
    mysql_free_result(result);
  }
  else {
    cerr << "Error in GetWaypoints query '" << query << "' " << errbuf << endl;
    safe_delete_array(query);
  }
  return false;
}

did i get you right ?