[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: horde/scripts/db mysql_create.sql

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Sun Feb 23 22:58:34 PST 2003


Quoting eculp at encontacto.net:

> It was changed from CHAR(256) to (200).  I would think it should be
> changed. Maybe I'm wrong??

a). It changed from CHAR(255) to VARCHAR(200).

b). As the commit message clearly stated, this was to accomodate older
MySQL's which can't handle keys longer than 256.

c). I have no idea why a presently running system would *need* to shorten
the length of this column.

-chuck

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