Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got to create a table that has the following:
> 
> CREATE TABLE access (
>   query VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
>   INDEX (query)
> );
> 
> and mysql is telling that the max bytes allowed is 500 for key length. 
> The docs say I can change this by recompiling, which I would like to 
> avoid having to do. Is there any way around this to get a 255 character 
> length field with index?

Your CREATE TABLE statement worked like charm for me. What version of MySQL server do 
you use?

> This is going to store weblog entries, so it's going to be a huge table. 
> Is there a different table type / column type / index type I could use 
> to achieve what I need?
> 


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