Mysql table comment increase length. Is this a bug?

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Published on 2010-04-26T13:02:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 13:03 UTC
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Hi,

I read the mysql table lengths questions on stackoverflow on here: questions/391323/table-comment-length-in-mysql questions/2473934/how-to-increase-mysql-table-comments-length

The first link suggests that it can be done and the second suggests it cannot. I don't know why there is this limitation as the comments are very useful. Imagine if there was a limit of 60 characters for your programs.

I wrote about this on my site and have some snapshots to the phpmyadmin and Dbforge MySQL IDEs: http://mysql.tutorialref.com/mysql-table-comment-length-limit.html

Is there a way to change this in phpmyadmin or perhaps even on the CLI?

There is a bug commit report from MySQL on this particular problem (follow the link from the stackoverflow (first link).

It seems to state that the length problem is fixed. I have MySQL 5.1.42.

Thank you, Victor

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