There are many properties stored in VARCHAR(255) fields, which sometimes isn&#39;t enough. This already causes <a href="http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-883">http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-883</a> . Changing to variable length field doesn&#39;t have any major side effects, as I know.
<br><br>As pro arguments:<br>1. The size of the database will not increase<br>2. There are already some fields stored as mediumtext and longblob, so it&#39;s not something new in the database<br>3. The fewer limits there are, the better
<br>4. Issues like XWIKI-883 will be fixed<br>... and maybe more<br clear="all"><br>Is there something I&#39;m missing that prevents this?<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://purl.org/net/sergiu">http://purl.org/net/sergiu</a>