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  2. JRACLOUD-36135

Add support for 4 byte characters in MySQL connection

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      Since MySQL 5.5+, there is support for 4 byte characters. JIRA is capable of handling these characters when using other databases. Due to some limitations in how MySQL is implemented, JIRA won't just work by setting the 4 byte encoding utf8mb4. MySQL's InnoDB engine is limited to a maximum size of 767 bytes for any field used in an index, and there are various places in JIRA that use a VARCHAR(255) field in an index. This means that JIRA will encounter an error such as the below if you try to simply install into an utf8mb4 database:

      2013-10-30 11:43:23,723 localhost-startStop-1 ERROR      [core.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil] SQL Exception while executing the following:
CREATE TABLE cwd_directory_attribute (directory_id DECIMAL(18,0) NOT NULL, attribute_name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, attribute_value VARCHAR(255), CONSTRAINT PK_cwd_directory_attribute PRIMARY KEY (directory_id, attribute_name))
Error was: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

      A full list of InnoDB restrictions including this one is listed at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-restrictions.html

      Workaround

      You can use another database - PostgreSQL is an alternative which is also free. Alternatively if you are just having problems parsing an XML backup, then you could process the data manually and remove any 4 byte characters before importing to avoid the problem.

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              bberenberg Boris Berenberg (Inactive)
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