wp-includes/class-wpdb.php:3370Retrieves the maximum string length allowed in a given column.
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public function get_col_length( $table, $column ) { $tablekey = strtolower( $table ); $columnkey = strtolower( $column ); // Skip this entirely if this isn't a MySQL database. if ( empty( $this->is_mysql ) ) { return false; } if ( empty( $this->col_meta[ $tablekey ] ) ) { // This primes column information for us. $table_charset = $this->get_table_charset( $table ); if ( is_wp_error( $table_charset ) ) { return $table_charset; } } if ( empty( $this->col_meta[ $tablekey ][ $columnkey ] ) ) { return false; } $typeinfo = explode( '(', $this->col_meta[ $tablekey ][ $columnkey ]->Type ); $type = strtolower( $typeinfo[0] ); if ( ! empty( $typeinfo[1] ) ) { $length = trim( $typeinfo[1], ')' ); } else { $length = false; } switch ( $type ) { case 'char': case 'varchar': return array( 'type' => 'char', 'length' => (int) $length, ); case 'binary': case 'varbinary': return array( 'type' => 'byte', 'length' => (int) $length, ); case 'tinyblob': case 'tinytext': return array( 'type' => 'byte', 'length' => 255, // 2^8 - 1 ); case 'blob': case 'text': return array( 'type' => 'byte', 'length' => 65535, // 2^16 - 1 ); case 'mediumblob': case 'mediumtext': return array( 'type' => 'byte', 'length' => 16777215, // 2^24 - 1 ); case 'longblob': case 'longtext': return array( 'type' => 'byte', 'length' => 4294967295, // 2^32 - 1 ); default: return false; } }Introduced in 4.2.1. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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