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That doesn't look like your original question at all. It will work though, assuming that's what you need to do.
PHP is a string based language. Strings are a primitive datatype as the union includes the char* within the zval.
As for large systems, no I guess not. I'm in a medium scale business with about 40TB of database usage and a little over 1300 servers many of which act together of course. I've only issued one table alteration in the past five years, and that was on a third party vendor software which chose a datatype too small to represent a number of bytes. The development team likely runs a lot of DDS statements within their code at runtime, but not a single one of those would make it into the production systems.
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As of PHP 5.5, the MySQL library has been officially deprecated. It is recommended to move to either MySQLi or PDO libraries for your mysql connectivity. See here for help choosing which interface you prefer: http://php.net/manual/en/mysqlinfo.api.choosing.php
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