Bug #72112 Wrong error code (1727 instead of 1709) for ER_INDEX_COLUMN_TOO_LONG in manual
Submitted: 24 Mar 2014 16:54 Modified: 25 Mar 2014 13:17
Reporter: Valeriy Kravchuk Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.5, 5.6 OS:Any
Assigned to: Paul DuBois CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: ER_INDEX_COLUMN_TOO_LONG, innodb_large_prefix

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