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Re: Why I cannot decrease the field size (table is full)
Posted by: Stewart Smith
Date: October 23, 2005 06:50PM

ALTER TABLE copies the table to a temporary table (with the new structure), deletes the original and then renames the temp table.

So you need to have enough memory free to copy the table.

also - you do know that there's no storage difference between tinyint(3) and tinyint(1) don't you? The number is purely for display purposes. So you can ask the question - why do you need to change the field?

Stewart Smith, Software Engineer - MySQL Cluster
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