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Fix PK length error when upgrading jivePrivate in MySQL using utf8

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When using MySQL 4.1.* and character set UTF-8 then the following error is generated when trying to increase the username field to 64:

[localhost] ERROR 1071: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1024 bytes

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Gaston Dombiak 
June 22, 2006 at 9:46 AM

The fix was to change the PK to only index the first 100 chars of the namespace field.

ALTER TABLE jivePrivate DROP PRIMARY KEY
ALTER TABLE jivePrivate MODIFY username VARCHAR(64);
ALTER TABLE jivePrivate ADD PRIMARY KEY (username, name, namespace(100));

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Created June 22, 2006 at 9:40 AM
Updated June 22, 2006 at 9:46 AM
Resolved June 22, 2006 at 9:46 AM