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

这解决了我的问题

ALTER DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE

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。

为了解决这个问题,这个方法对我很有效。

ALTER DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

我解决了这个问题:

varchar(200) 

取而代之的是

varchar(191)

所有超过200的唯一或主varchar键将它们替换为191或将它们设置为文本。

当你达到极限的时候。设置如下参数。

INNODB utf8 VARCHAR(255) INNODB utf8mb4 VARCHAR

Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

You got that message because 1 byte equals 1 character only if you use the latin-1 character set. If you use utf8, each character will be considered 3 bytes when defining your key column. If you use utf8mb4, each character will be considered to be 4 bytes when defining your key column. Thus, you need to multiply your key field's character limit by, 1, 3, or 4 (in my example) to determine the number of bytes the key field is trying to allow. If you are using uft8mb4, you can only define 191 characters for a native, InnoDB, primary key field. Just don't breach 767 bytes.