At 16:37 -0600 9/6/02, Sasha Pachev wrote:
>On Thursday 05 September 2002 04:33 pm, Paul DuBois wrote:
>> Is this an InnoDB-specific change, or a general MySQL change?
>> I remember a while back Heikki widened the InnoDB key length, and
>> then set it back to 500 shortly thereafter because MySQL itself
>> was imposing a 500-byte length.
>
>This change permits InnoDB to support 1024 keys. Without it, the
>handler-independent code will intercept the attepts to create keys over 500
>bytes even if the handler supports it.
Thanks. So up through 4.0.3, InnoDB has the same 500-byte index
limit as other table types, from 4.0.4 on, it's 1024 bytes?
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