[TYPO3-core] RFC #12365: cache_extensions.authorname too small

[Martin Kutschker]

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> 
> how is that in other DB engines? I know MySQL doesn't reserve the
> complete space of 255 chars, is this a MySQL special?

I don't think so. The PostgreSQL docs also say that only the actual string (even compressed!) is
stored (plus 4 bytes overhead). I reckon it's the same for other DB systems.

Masi