[Proposal] Some/All fields in the database should be longer

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

5 days without an answer. So, everybody agrees?


On 2/23/07, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu.dumitriu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There are many properties stored in VARCHAR(255) fields, which sometimes
> isn't enough. This already causes
> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-883 . Changing to variable length
> field doesn't have any major side effects, as I know.
>
> As pro arguments:
> 1. The size of the database will not increase
> 2. There are already some fields stored as mediumtext and longblob, so
> it's not something new in the database
> 3. The fewer limits there are, the better
> 4. Issues like XWIKI-883 will be fixed
> ... and maybe more
>
> Is there something I'm missing that prevents this?
>


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