13.1.17.3. Silent Column Specification Changes

Columns that are part of a PRIMARY KEY are made NOT NULL even if not declared that way.

Trailing spaces are automatically deleted from ENUM and SET member values when the table is created.

MySQL maps certain data types used by other SQL database vendors to MySQL types. See Section 11.8, "Using Data Types from Other Database Engines".

If you include a USING clause to specify an index type that is not permitted for a given storage engine, but there is another index type available that the engine can use without affecting query results, the engine uses the available type.

If strict SQL mode is not enabled, a VARCHAR column with a length specification greater than 65535 is converted to TEXT, and a VARBINARY column with a length specification greater than 65535 is converted to BLOB. Otherwise, an error occurs in either of these cases.

Specifying the CHARACTER SET binary attribute for a character data type causes the column to be created as the corresponding binary data type: CHAR becomes BINARY, VARCHAR becomes VARBINARY, and TEXT becomes BLOB. For the ENUM and SET data types, this does not occur; they are created as declared. Suppose that you specify a table using this definition:

CREATE TABLE t(  c1 VARCHAR(10) CHARACTER SET binary,  c2 TEXT CHARACTER SET binary,  c3 ENUM('a','b','c') CHARACTER SET binary);

The resulting table has this definition:

CREATE TABLE t(  c1 VARBINARY(10),  c2 BLOB,  c3 ENUM('a','b','c') CHARACTER SET binary);