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

[Steffen Gebert]

Am 13.05.2010, 14:59 Uhr, schrieb Martin Kutschker  
<masi-no at spam-typo3.org>:

> 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.

So both of you agree?! ;-)

Attached v2 which also increases extkey, title and ownerusername to 255  
chars.

It's the special attribute of a varchar to not take the full space of 255  
chars, but only the length of the actually stored data. Otherwise it would  
be a char :-P

Regards
Steffen
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