Hi Marc,
I found the place where this issue generates. When we try click on Table->Structure->Column->Change link it goes to the tbl_alter.php file and within that the "append_fields_form" is process by using tbl_properties.inc.php file. At line number 325 in tbl_properties.inc.php "PMA_getSupportedDatatypes(true, $type_upper);" function is call to get the table type select options.
You can find at line 3118 in "PMA_getSupportedDatatypes(true, $type_upper);" the option selection is set as
if ($selected == $value) {
$retval .= "<option selected='selected'>$value</option>";
} else {
$retval .= "<option>$value</option>";
}
But if you use an echo you can see that $selected contains VARCHAR(45) as the value and $value contains VARCHAR as the value. So when we try to edit the tables which are having VARCHAR type columns it does not select the value at the options.
I can modify the logic by splitting the $selected by "(" and solve the issue. Is there any better solution you can suggest. If there any please let me know. Thank you.
Regards,
Thilanka.
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L G Thilanka Kaushalya
Computer Science & Engineering,
University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka
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