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Currently for MySQL (haven't tested other databases) the issue.description and journal.notes fields are of type text. I attempted to post a detailed report of some work I was doing earlier to a Redmine installation I run and encountered the cap for the text type. I had opted to post the details directly into the OP instead of a text file attachment because I was hoping to have the contents of the report searchable.

Notepad++ tells me the length of the content is 69161, which I assume is characters. I spent a while researching (since I am not a MySQL expert by any means) and came upon these references:

• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/blob.html
• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/storage-requirements.html
• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/string-type-overview.html

According to the last link the text type is:

A TEXT column with a maximum length of 65,535 (216 − 1) characters. The effective maximum length is less if the value contains multibyte characters. Each TEXT value is stored using a 2-byte length prefix that indicates the number of bytes in the value.

If I understand the details correctly (I'm still new), these field types are of variable length, so if the type were changed to MEDIUMTEXT the cap would be raised from 65,535 bytes to 16,777,215 bytes but the actual storage required for only a small amount of content would be based on the amount of actual content.

Please consider adjusting the field types for these and related columns in a future Redmine release in order to support larger descriptions and comments on issues.

Thank you for your consideration.