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Is safe to change product description field type?

Started by Juri, June 09, 2016, 20:42:43 PM

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Juri

Hi,
i have products with very long description(more than 24.000 characters lenght).
I've tried on my demo server changing product_s_desc and product_desc field type from VARCHAR to MEDIUMTEXT, and it seems to work fine.
Anybody has already done this? Is there any known issue about?

Thanks !
Juri

GJC Web Design

should be fine but be careful on updates .. it may change back and u will loose data
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