Bug #33105 "Silent Column Specification Changes" misses conversions
Submitted: 10 Dec 2007 5:56 Modified: 10 Dec 2007 6:31
Reporter: Ramil Kalimullin Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1+ OS:Any
Assigned to: Jon Stephens CPU Architecture:Any

[10 Dec 2007 5:56] Ramil Kalimullin 
Description:
In the 5.0 manual we have a note that big varchar columns are converted to TEXT, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/silent-column-changes.html

In the 5.1 we have the same behaviour, but it's not described at the
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/silent-column-changes.html

See also Bug #27473: "ARCHIVE: silently converts column type in 5.0/5.1"

How to repeat:
Compare
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/silent-column-changes.html
and
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/silent-column-changes.html
[10 Dec 2007 6:27] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for a reasonable documentation request.
[10 Dec 2007 6:31] Jon Stephens 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant products.