id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
30712	Add support for defaults on BLOB and TEXT columns on MySQL 8.0.13+	Adam Johnson	Nasir Hussain	"Whilst implementing #27676 for MariaDB, I learned that MySQL 8.0.13+ allows defaults for BLOB and TEXT columns as well.

It has a caveat though - static defaults must always be wrapped in parentheses for such columns.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/data-type-defaults.html

"	New feature	closed	Database layer (models, ORM)	dev	Normal	fixed	MySQL, default		Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0