[TYPO3-core] RFC: Change field type of various mounts

[Martin Kutschker]

Michael Stucki schrieb:
> This is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Problem:
> Users can extend the number of file- or database mounts by overriding the TCA 
> configuration. However, they are still limited by the default length of the 
> database fields which is varchar(40) for all of them.
> 
> Solution:
> Change these fields into tinytext type.
> 
> Comments:
> This is already the case for the same fields in sys_workspace, so it can't be 
> really wrong...

+1 but please use VARCHAR(255) instead of tinytext. I don't see a 
difference to varchar and DBAL won't make a full blown CBLOB out of it. *

Masi


* Karsten, could you please change DBAL so it doesn't use the largest 
possible field length for all types?