Aryeh Gregor wrote:
I don't understand what you're saying. Article names and usernames are varchar(255), namespaces are int, and I expect them to remain that way. What we're discussing is only edit summaries and the like, rev_comment and log_comment and so on (if there is any so on, I can't recall offhand).
Ah, then that's the confusion. As far as I can tell, the original poster was raising the issue of HTML text input maxlength (see subject) -- I don't think he ever meant to delve into database matters explicitly. Brion was the one to cross-reference VARCHAR limits into the matter, and you prolly picked up from there. I apologise if I misdirected you, in case you intended to open a different sub-topic -- I was sticking to the original context.
Gutza