Re: mysql user name length

2005-07-11 Thread Bruce Dembecki
Just to make things REALLY messy... try setting the default character set of a 4.1 server to utf8, and then importing your data from 4.0... your mysql usernames are in real trouble now, because utf8 considers itself to be multi byte and takes more space, cutting down on the 16 characters by

Re: mysql user name length

2005-07-06 Thread Jim Winstead
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:46:02PM -0700, Tim Traver wrote: > Is there any reason why I shouldn't increase the size of the allowable > user names in mysql to var(32) instead of the default var(16) ??? > > Couldn't really find much on it, but wanted to ask if anyone knows of > any troubles this m