执行以下命令时:

ALTER TABLE `mytable` ADD UNIQUE (
`column1` ,
`column2`
);

我得到了这个错误信息:

#1071 - Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

columnn1和column2的信息:

column1 varchar(20) utf8_general_ci
column2  varchar(500) utf8_general_ci

我认为varchar(20)只需要21个字节,而varchar(500)只需要501个字节。所以总字节数是522,小于767。为什么我得到了错误消息?

#1071 - Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

当前回答

由于前缀限制,将发生此错误。在5.7之前的MySQL版本中,对于InnoDB表的前缀限制是767字节。MyISAM表有1000字节长。在MySQL 5.7及以上版本中,这个限制已经增加到3072字节。

在出现错误的服务上运行以下操作可以解决您的问题。这必须在MYSQL CLI中运行。

SET GLOBAL innodb_file_format=Barracuda;
SET GLOBAL innodb_file_per_table=on;
SET GLOBAL innodb_large_prefix=on;

其他回答

在导入文件中用utf8替换utf8mb4。

但请注意,utf8字符集已弃用,它不支持所有的Unicode字符,例如表情符号,所以如果这样做,您将失去对Unicode的完全支持。

我认为varchar(20)只需要21个字节,而varchar(500)只需要 需要501字节。所以总字节数是522,小于767。那么,为什么 我收到错误信息了吗?

UTF8每个字符需要3个字节来存储字符串,因此在您的情况下,20 +500字符= 20*3+500*3 = 1560字节,这超过了允许的767字节。

UTF8的限制是767/3 = 255个字符,对于每个字符使用4个字节的UTF8mb4,它是767/4 = 191个字符。


如果您需要使用比限制更长的列,有两种解决方案:

Use "cheaper" encoding (the one that requires less bytes per character) In my case, I needed to add Unique index on column containing SEO string of article, as I use only [A-z0-9\-] characters for SEO, I used latin1_general_ci which uses only one byte per character and so column can have 767 bytes length. Create hash from your column and use unique index only on that The other option for me was to create another column which would store hash of SEO, this column would have UNIQUE key to ensure SEO values are unique. I would also add KEY index to original SEO column to speed up look up.

如果您最近修改了innodb_log_file_size,请尝试恢复之前的值。

如果有人在InnoDB和utf8字符集试图在VARCHAR(256)字段上放置UNIQUE索引时遇到问题,请将其切换到VARCHAR(255)字段。255似乎是限制。

5解决方法:

在5.7.7中提高了限制(MariaDB 10.2.2?)。并且可以通过5.6(10.1)中的一些工作来增加它。

如果你因为试图使用字符集utf8mb4而达到极限。然后做以下其中一种(每一种都有缺点)来避免错误:

⚈  Upgrade to 5.7.7 for 3072 byte limit -- your cloud may not provide this;
⚈  Change 255 to 191 on the VARCHAR -- you lose any values longer than 191 characters (unlikely?);
⚈  ALTER .. CONVERT TO utf8 -- you lose Emoji and some of Chinese;
⚈  Use a "prefix" index -- you lose some of the performance benefits.
⚈  Or... Stay with older version but perform 4 steps to raise the limit to 3072 bytes:

SET GLOBAL innodb_file_format=Barracuda;
SET GLOBAL innodb_file_per_table=1;
SET GLOBAL innodb_large_prefix=1;
logout & login (to get the global values);
ALTER TABLE tbl ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC;  -- (or COMPRESSED)

——http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/limits 767 _limit_in_innodb_indexes