Hi Marc!
I checked bug 731866. The problem is that we are using PMA_mysql_field_type(), which returns 'blob' when field type is 'text'.
libraries/build_dump.lib.php3 is the only place we use PMA_mysql_field_type().
In fact, in phpMyAdmin we always avoided using mysql_field_type(), because of this problem.
See in tbl_change.php3, how we set $is_blob, with "SHOW FIELDS FROM...". We are using "SHOW FIELDS" in a lot of places.
So maybe remove PMA_mysql_field_type() and do a generic PMA_get_field_type() which does not use mysql_field_type().
Ah, thanks for investigating that. As I'm not familar with that issue and I don't want to seriously cause inconsitencys, who's willing to do this? I think using a generic get_field_type sounds got...
Regards, Garvin.