[TYPO3-core] RFC: #12613: Errors with cache data from DB

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>> Reason is that cache-table use field TEXT for serialized arrays,
>> therfore MySQL respect the charset.
> 
> I think this was made some time before but I do not remember why. There was a reason to convert blobs to texts.

The reason must be very good. I didn't test the test setup with the current trunk, but to work
properly the field "HTML" must be a BLOB in 4.2.x. The dull thing is that we promise no change in DB
layout. Does this policy apply even if a bug can be fixed?

Masi