MySQL error: The maximum column size is 767 bytes

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user3570615 picture user3570615 · Jun 10, 2015 · Viewed 63.2k times · Source

When I run a program which does something with MySQL, I got this error message:

2015-06-10 15:41:12,250 ERROR app.wsutils 419 INCRON: Error: ('HY000', '[HY000] [MySQL][ODBC 5.2(w) Driver][mysqld-5.7.7-rc-log]Index column size too large. The maximum column size is 767 bytes. (1709) (SQLExecDirectW)')

I Googled a little bit, and found this error might be relating to the innodb_large_prefix option. However, I am using MySQL 5.7.7 rc, which has already set innodb_large_prefix to be "ON" (checked in MySQL Workbench), allowing up to 3072 bytes. I am not sure if that is the problem with innodb_large_prefix or not.

Anyway, does anyone have an idea how to fix this problem?

Answer

Sasank Mukkamala picture Sasank Mukkamala · Feb 4, 2016

With the help of the answer given by BK435, I did the following and solved the problem.

set global innodb_file_format = BARRACUDA;
set global innodb_large_prefix = ON;
create table test (........) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC;

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