[eluser]kyleect[/eluser]
[quote author="bretticus" date="1238546492"]If you are using fields as utf8 for example I believe it uses up 3 bytes per character. Thus, you are limited to 333 characters for a key. This may be because you have an older version of MySQL. I see no reason why username and password would need 255 characters each. You need a username length policy (32 chars is common) and if anyone has an email with more than say 50 or 100 characters, they are out of their minds!!!
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You could set length to 100 an be totally fine.[/quote]
Thanks, that makes sense.
@Aea: 8-16 characters, for an email address?