mysql change innodb_large_prefix

Question

I just setup debian 8.3 on a VM and installed xampp after this Tutorial. Everything is working, until I tried to create a new table:

create table testtable
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Answer 1

Between 5.6.3 and 5.7.7 (that is if you are running MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10.0), there are 4 steps:

• SET GLOBAL innodb_file_format=Barracuda;
• SET GLOBAL innodb_file_per_table=ON;
• ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC; -- or COMPRESSED (goes on end of CREATE)
• innodb_large_prefix=1

Note

SELECT * FROM information_schema.INNODB_SYS_TABLESPACES;

will provide the file_format and row_format. Some other I_S tables provide clues of file_per_table.