Hi Sergei, Oracle's limitation is different.

From http://mysqlserverteam.com/generated-columns-in-mysql-5-7-5/

The length of the generation expressions for a table are subject to the

limitations of the .frm file, and thus they can’t be longer than 64K in total. So you can have one field with a generation expression length of 64K, or you can have 30 fields with an average expression length of 2K each.

In normal practice, this is significantly higher than the MariaDB limit. Thanks, Chris On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Sergey Petrunia <sergey@mariadb.com> wrote:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/virtual-computed-columns/ says

the expression cannot exceed 252 characters in length.

I've got a complaint about this limitation.

Do we have any plans to remove it? (Does Oracle have it in their variant of this feature?)

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