A better cutoff for VARCHAR -> TEXT for MySQL.

In this brave new world of multiple character sets, we need to be more conservative.
2026-03-30 10:54:03 -07:00
parent 0f5e0e2203
commit 764b887ccc
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -288,7 +288,9 @@ public class MySQLBuilder
            return "DOUBLE";
        }
        public String getStringType (int length) {
-            return (length < (1 << 15)) ? "VARCHAR(" + length + ")" : "TEXT";
+            // MySQL VARCHAR max is floor(65535/max_char_bytes); for utf8mb4 that's 16383.
+            // Use 16383 as the threshold to be safe with any character set.
+            return (length <= 16383) ? "VARCHAR(" + length + ")" : "TEXT";
        }
        public String getDateType (int length) {
            return "DATE";