Hi, Witold! On Jan 14, Witold Filipczyk wrote:
Why do you want to increase the max key length?
I like mysqlhotcopy as backup tool, but new soft requires big key.
Yes, that's what I was asking. What does it require, can you show an example of a table definition? I mean, a non-unique key doesn't have to be that long. If it's smaller, it'll still help to narrow the search to all rows with the same 1000-byte prefix, and then just compare them all with the exact 3K value. So 1K-key will still help even if values are 3K (except when all your values have exactly the same 1K prefix, but it's not a very realistic scenario). But with 1K keys you'll fit 3 times more keys per index page, you'll have less disk IO, and less tree levels to search. You would really need 3K, if you have 3K UNIQUE key, for UNIQUE 3k contraints. Using 1K keys would change the semantics, values won't necessarily be unique anymore. But since 10.4 MariaDB supports unique constraints of arbitrary length. So, again, you should not need to increase max key length for that (except that you're on 10.3 now). Regards, Sergei VP of MariaDB Server Engineering and security@mariadb.org