Perhaps in your case it would be better to use another table and do a join?
> Hi!
>
> In order to save space in our database, we designed our tables to use
> enumerated datatypes. For one column, we have about 2,800
> different values,
> each of which is about 30-40 text characters long. Now, all the MySQL
> documentation I have read states that the limit for the number of
> ENUM keys
> is 65535 (2 byte representation), and nowhere does it mention a
> maximum size
> for the key values. Is this a bug? We are using the version distributed
> with Red Hat 7.0 (3.23.32). Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
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