Add a serialized_data schema type

Created on 8 September 2015, over 9 years ago
Updated 15 January 2025, 21 days ago

Problem/Motivation

Follow-up from #1031122: postgres changeField() is unable to convert to bytea column type correctly

Drupal 6 and possibly some contrib modules stored serialized data in a varchar, this is not recommended, and particularly breaks on postgres.

Proposed resolution

Add a serialized_data schema type to make it clear that the column stores serialized data. This would be mainly for documentation purposes and would map to blob/bytea.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Addition only, although also a new best practice.

Data model changes

📌 Task
Status

Closed: outdated

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

database system

Created by

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