See this recent discussion:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/tL8gnapo6fg/discussion
On Thursday, February 3, 2011 12:39:45 AM UTC-5, Dane wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have many fields defined like this:
>
> Field('name','string', required=True, length=300,
> requires=[IS_LENGTH(300)]),
>
> where the VARCHAR length in MySQL is not being set properly. It is
> defaulting to VARCHAR(255) for all strings regardless of my model
> definitions. Is there something else I need to do or is this a bug in
> the MySQL adapter?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Dane
