mysql> show columns from bug20925; Field 1: `Field` Catalog: `def` Database: `` Table: `COLUMNS` Org_table: `` Type: VAR_STRING Collation: latin1_swedish_ci (8) Length: 64 Max_length: 8 Decimals: 0 Flags: NOT_NULL Field 2: `Type` Catalog: `def` Database: `` Table: `COLUMNS` Org_table: `` Type: BLOB Collation: latin1_swedish_ci (8) Length: 196605 Max_length: 12 Decimals: 0 Flags: NOT_NULL BLOB Field 3: `Null` Catalog: `def` Database: `` Table: `COLUMNS` Org_table: `` Type: VAR_STRING Collation: latin1_swedish_ci (8) Length: 3 Max_length: 3 Decimals: 0 Flags: NOT_NULL Field 4: `Key` Catalog: `def` Database: `` Table: `COLUMNS` Org_table: `` Type: VAR_STRING Collation: latin1_swedish_ci (8) Length: 3 Max_length: 3 Decimals: 0 Flags: NOT_NULL Field 5: `Default` Catalog: `def` Database: `` Table: `COLUMNS` Org_table: `` Type: VAR_STRING Collation: latin1_swedish_ci (8) Length: 64 Max_length: 0 Decimals: 0 Flags: Field 6: `Extra` Catalog: `def` Database: `` Table: `COLUMNS` Org_table: `` Type: VAR_STRING Collation: latin1_swedish_ci (8) Length: 20 Max_length: 14 Decimals: 0 Flags: NOT_NULL +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | bigint(20) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | name | varchar(240) | YES | | NULL | | | birthday | datetime | NO | | NULL | | +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 3 rows in set (1.89 sec) mysql>