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  2. MDL-58931

AWS Aurora MySQL support for Moodle

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    • MOODLE_33_STABLE, MOODLE_38_STABLE, MOODLE_39_STABLE
    • MOODLE_310_STABLE
    • MDL-58931-master
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      Testing this improvement requires a functional Moodle environment on Amazon Web Services. You will need an RDS instance with the Amazon Aurora engine and MySQL 5.7 compatibility, and an EC2 instance with the Moodle codebase and this patch.

      1. Set the dbtype in config.php to auroramysql.
      2. Run the full PHPUnit suite and verify that tests pass.
      3. Run the full Behat test suite and verify that tests pass.
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      Testing this improvement requires a functional Moodle environment on Amazon Web Services. You will need an RDS instance with the Amazon Aurora engine and MySQL 5.7 compatibility, and an EC2 instance with the Moodle codebase and this patch. Set the dbtype in config.php to auroramysql. Run the full PHPUnit suite and verify that tests pass. Run the full Behat test suite and verify that tests pass.

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      Hello, I was trying to install Moodle 3.3 today and I couldn't. I was getting the error below

       

       

      Debug info:
       Index column size too large. The maximum column size is 767 bytes.
      CREATE TABLE mdl_config (
      id BIGINT(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
      name VARCHAR(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
      value LONGTEXT COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
      CONSTRAINT PRIMARY KEY (id)
      , UNIQUE KEY mdl_conf_nam_uix (name)
      )
      ENGINE = InnoDB
      DEFAULT COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci ROW_FORMAT=Compressed
      COMMENT='Moodle configuration variables'
      ;
      CREATE TABLE mdl_config_plugins (
      id BIGINT(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
      plugin VARCHAR(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT 'core',
      name VARCHAR(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
      value LONGTEXT COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
      CONSTRAINT PRIMARY KEY (id)
      , UNIQUE KEY mdl_confplug_plunam_uix (plugin, name)
      )
      ENGINE = InnoDB
      DEFAULT COLLATE = utf8mb4_unic
      

       

      I am using AWS Aurora as my DB Engine

      After some investigation and internet searching I found out that the problem is

      row_format=compressed

      I followed the Moodle guides to make all the necessary changes for the new Barracuda file format, all the settings below are applied

       

      default-character-set = utf8mb4 
      innodb_file_format = Barracuda 
      innodb_file_per_table = 1 
      innodb_large_prefix 
      character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
      character-set=server= utf8mb4
      collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci 
       
      default-character-set = utf8mb4
      

       

       

      Even though innodb_large_prefix  is enabled I still get the error. I am not sure if this is AWS Aurora specific but I would like to know if there is a way to be fixed.

       

      I also tried to create the table manually, and when I changed the row_format=compressed to row_format=dynamic I managed to create the table.

       

      Thanks for your time.

      Christos

       

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