ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite — Issue #29: MySQL default string length too low
Author: parnham
Created: 2012-03-02 18:46:22+00:00
State: open

The default string length for the OrmLiteDialectProviderBase is 8000, but the MySqlDialectProvider overrides this and sets it to 255.

Is this to make it backwards compatible with MySQL versions before 5.03?

Perhaps this override can be removed since, according to the documentation, MySQL <5 will convert any VARCHAR specified with a length greater than 255 to an appropriately sized TEXT field.