On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote:
> [T193222] MariaDB on Stretch uses the utf8mb4 character set. Attempting > to create a key on VARCHAR(192) or larger would cause: > Error: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes > > Reducing the key length is the obvious solution and some fields could > use to be converted to ENUM. > Personally, I'd rather we didn't use more enums. They work inconsistently for comparisons and ordering, and they require a schema change any time a new value is needed. It'd probably be better to use NameTableStore instead. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
