MySQL fields with () should not get quoted

[moltar]

$sqlt_table->add_index(
  name   => "idx", 
  fields => ["foo(100)"], // size required for text columns in MySQL
);

Related SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6859955/how-do-you-specify-index-length-when-using-dbixclass

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This is from DBIx::Class::Migration:

What I see that in deploy/001-auto.sql it produces invalid SQL:

INDEX `custom_field_map_values_idx_value_text` (`value_text(1000)`),

But in upgrade/001-auto.sql, it looks valid:

ALTER TABLE custom_field_map_values DROP INDEX custom_field_map_values_idx_value_text,
                                    DROP INDEX custom_field_map_values_idx_value_options,
                                    ADD INDEX custom_field_map_values_idx_value_text (value_text(1000)),
                                    ADD INDEX custom_field_map_values_idx_value_options (value_options(1000));

[rabbiveesh]

2 things to note here:

1. what you're seeing is likely a bug in DBIx::Class::Migration not being consistent in using the quoting options. The easiest solution for the time being is to just turn off quoting
2. we have an open pr (Add index length option for MySQL #68 ) that addresses this exact problem by allowing you to pass in {name => 'foo', prefix_length => 100} instead of the string. If you have opinions on what that should look like, please comment over there, i do hope to merge it soon

[rabbiveesh]

Hey, this is now released in 1.64

As mentioned in the previous comment, you can use this feature by instead of passing foo(100), you can pass in { name => 'foo', prefix_length => 100 }

[rabbiveesh]

Truth is, the Postgres parser has an escape hatch for when you add parens to a field name, so even though the CORRECT solution to the specific issue here is to use the new interface, we may as well ALSO add in the escape hatch

[moltar]

@rabbiveesh Thank you! 🙇🏼‍♂️