[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #881: Lengthen password field for protected posts

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#881: Lengthen password field for protected posts
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 Reporter:  ScytheBlade1  |       Owner:  pento
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Database      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by adamsilverstein):

 > Now, it's not possible to avoid that downtime (unless you're using MySQL
 5.6, which would allow this ALTER TABLE as an
 [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-create-index-overview.html
 online DDL]), but I think it's necessary for us to provide a much better
 UI for these long running schema changes (and better feedback in the event
 of something going wrong) before we can look at making another change.

 Thanks for the explanation; here seems like as good a place as any to work
 out the details of an incremental schema change UI. Lets keep working on
 it!

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