registerVarcharTypes in MySQL5Dialect creates varchar for up to a length of 65535 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-6075 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6075 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.3.0.SP1 Environment: MySQL 5.1.52 Reporter: Thomas Einwaller while the registerVarcharTypes in the MySQLDialect only creates varchar columns with a length up to 255 seems like a regression caused by this commit: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-core/commit/d8d6d82e30960e0c255950... MySQL throws the following error: Error Code: 1118 Row size too large. The maximum row size for the used table type, not counting BLOBs, is 65535. You have to change some columns to TEXT or BLOBs when trying to create a table with 3 varchar (20000) colums -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira