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Jon Smillie

Rails 2.1 MySQL 6.0 schema_migrations index problem

Reported by Jon Smillie | July 1st, 2008 @ 04:53 AM | in 2.x

This is the error I get when I enter the command rake db:migrate:

rake aborted!

Mysql::Error: #42000Specified key was too long; max key length is 767

bytes: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX 'unique_schema_migrations' ON

'schema_migrations' <'version'>

The problem is that MySQL has a limit of 767 bytes on the length of

columns used for keys. In UTF8 a varchar(255) consumes 1080 bytes. The

fix is to have the indexing done on a the first part of the key, by

limiting the key to so (say) the first 100 characters, by:

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX `unique_schema_migrations`

ON `schema_migrations` (`version` (100) )

In ActiveRecord 2.1.0 the code which creates the index on the

schema_migrations table is in

connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb on line 317. This

calls the "add_index" method defined on line 255. The actual sql

statement used to create the index is on line 266. Change this to:

execute "CREATE #{index_type} INDEX #{quote_column_name(index_name)}

ON #{quote_table_name(table_name)} (#{quoted_column_names} (100) )"

ie: add the "(100)" after the column_name, and this will instruct MySQL

to only build the index on the first 100 characters of this column, well

under the 767 byte limit.

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