Fucking what. Apparently, MySQL is rather picky about this and I didn’t notice because MariaDB:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/data-type-defaults.html

> The BLOB, TEXT, GEOMETRY, and JSON data types can be assigned a default value only if the value is written as an expression, even if the expression value is a literal: […]

Well, that clears that up. Guess we’re MariaDB-only now. I might get around to a MySQL patch one day(TM).

This disposable $1 a month VM is older, but I ended up purging MySQL 5.7 and loading Maria 10.0 … This time building the tables went through without any error, and I can post.

This is the error:

mysql error: BLOB, TEXT, GEOMETRY or JSON column 'threadindex' can't have a default value


Maria 10 seems to be OK though.

The patch applied fine, the MySQL didn’t like the idea of it being ”.. I’ll reapply and post the exact message soon. Sorry the last 2 days have been a bit crazy..

Thanks for remembering !

@@ -247,12 +249,12 @@
title CHAR(100) NOT NULL,
lastpost INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
forumid SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
– replycount INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
+ replycount INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
postusername CHAR(50) NOT NULL,
dateline INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
– subjectindex CHAR(100) NOT NULL,
– threadindex MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL,
– userindex MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL,
+ subjectindex CHAR(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
+ threadindex MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
+ userindex MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
PRIMARY KEY(threadid)

is the chunk, actually. My bad. Still in the patch, so I’m mildly confused.

It… should be working, actually. I made sure to change the admin/install.php in the patch:

@@ -205,10 +207,10 @@
description CHAR(250) NOT NULL,
active SMALLINT NOT NULL,
displayorder SMALLINT NOT NULL,
– replycount INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
– lastpost INT NOT NULL,
– threadcount MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
– allowposting SMALLINT NOT NULL,
+ replycount INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+ lastpost INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+ threadcount MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+ allowposting SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
PRIMARY KEY(forumid)
)”);

Are you sure you applied the patch before installing?

Lol not surprising, the MySQL I had in a throwaway VM didn’t like the default schema.

I was installing it while stuck in meetings…….

PS.: I tried to post this to the board itself, but..:
mysql error: Field ‘threadindex’ doesn’t have a default value
mysql error number: 1364