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

[Georg Kuehnberger]

On 20.07.2010 09:46, Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> 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.
>

If thats the case, then this is not a DAM-issue but rather a T3-DBAL 
Issue and should be solved as such (core or dbal group);

regards georg