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chrestomanci has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

DBIx::Class unique constraint with limited key length

Greetings wise brothers. I seek your wisdom on how to be confident that all are different without the need to remember every part.

I am working DBIx::Class, and I would like to add a unique constraint of limited key length to a much longer varchar column

My DBIC schema definition code looks like this:

__PACKAGE__->table("classification_rules"); __PACKAGE__->add_columns( "id", { data_type => "integer", is_auto_increment => 1, is_nullable => 0 + }, ... "path", { data_type => "varchar", is_nullable => 0, size => 600 }, ); __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key("id"); __PACKAGE__->add_unique_constraint( ['path'] );

This generates MySQL like this:

CREATE TABLE `classification_rules` ( `id` integer NOT NULL auto_increment, ... `path` text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE `classification_rules_path` (`path`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB;

The problem is, that when I deploy, MySQL correctly reports that you can not have a unique constraint on a varchar that long without limiting the key length. What I would like to do, is have it generate SQL like UNIQUE `classification_rules_path` (path(250)) but I cannot work out how.

I have already stepped through the add_unique_constraint code in DBIx::Class::ResultSource to try to find an undocumented feature or hook I can use and also added breakpoints in SQL::Translator::Producer::MySQL to try and spot where the SQL is being generated from the other end.

Is there another solution to this? Is there a hook to add literal SQL to the definition for my table?

Thank you.

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Re: Install Beta module via Carton
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 16, 2015 at 10:27 UTC

    I'm sure this any form of AUTHORID/FILENAME will work like LEEJO/CGI.pm-4.03_01.tar.gz provided the tarball is on CPAN

    A url will also probably work