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28661	Auto-truncate indexes on MySQL when max index size is reached	Claude Paroz	nobody	"We have been hit several times in Django by this MySQL limitation when wanting to extend the length of some indexed char fields. One example is #19515.

I suggest to automatically limit indexes when the size of the indexed field is too long to be completely indexed by MySQL. This auto-truncation would be limited to single-indexed fields, because I don't see trivial automatic rules when more than one field is indexed (proportional shortening, maybe?)."	New feature	new	Database layer (models, ORM)	dev	Normal			Clifford Gama	Accepted	1	0	0	1	0	0