[TYPO3-dam-devel] RFC #12525: Adding metadata or category to a file duplicates the file in table tx_dam [DBAL]

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Xavier Perseguers wrote:
>> Do I understand the problem correctly:
>> - BLOB/CLOB cannot be used with LIKE
>> - TEXT cannot be mapped automatically to VARCHAR(4000) because TEXT
>> fields
>> can use more than 4000 characters
> 
> yes.

Than we have no choice but use varchar(4000) :( It is so unclean... I guess
we need a comment in ext_tables.sql saying why it is 4000. Otherwise there
will be someone who will try to change it to another value.

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