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[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

> On 16 Dec 2015, at 06:47, Warren H. Prince <wprince@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I’m considering moving from MySql to MariaDB so I did a dump today and attempted an import.  It failed with the “Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes” error.  I dealt with this in MySql and knew to change file format to Barracuda.  I zapped the partial import, did a fresh mysql_install_db, restarted the service and tried again to no avail.  To confirm my settings immediately after the failure:
> 

The workaround should be:
	set global innodb_large_prefix=on;

For discussion around this, see: https://answers.launchpad.net/maria/+question/241612

HTH

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