guys, i'm still unsure of how to proceed with this. it seems as if we won't be able to settle on a column definition that works for all databases, so i am fine moving forward with a set of database specific definitions for this column if that is agreeable.
another slightly bigger problem is that to make this change for upgrading users we will need to alter an existing column, which is something that it doesn't seem like we've done before. this is problematic because the alter table syntax is different for many databases, so we may also need database specific methods for altering the column definition. ugh. does anyone have suggestions about the right way to go about this? i am almost ready to just de-commit my change from svn and only apply it on our Sun instances of Roller since it's turning out to be so much trouble. -- Allen
