Merge Stewart - 728855: BLOB column can have default '' (empty string) in CREATE TABLE but not ALTER TABLE ALTER Merge Stewart - 728856: CREATE TABLE t1 (a int default 'aoeu'); succeeds Merge Stewart - 730420: ER_TOO_BIG_FIELDLENGTH can report allowed size in bytes or characters depending on codepath producing the error Merge Stewart - dbqp source (and all its libs) should use emacs python mode, not emacs C mode