KB-1803 "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes" error seen the application server log when starting Appian

Jordan Horwat — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:06:31 GMT

Current Revision posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 11/21/2018 12:06:31 PM

Symptoms

When starting up Appian for the first time after a fresh installation, users may see the following error in the application server log:

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

Cause

The MySQL storage engine was configured to use MyISAM instead of InnoDB as the storage engine. See the MySQL documentation here for further details on storage engines.

Action

Make sure MySQL has the InnoDB engine by running the following command in MySQL:

show engines;

Then, set the default storage engine to use InnoDB by running the following command in MySQL:

set GLOBAL storage_engine='InnoDb';

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian using MySQL as a primary database.

Last Reviewed: November 2018

Tags: database, mysql, infrastructure

KB-1803 "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes" error seen the application server log when starting Appian

Jordan Horwat — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:05:10 GMT

Revision 4 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 11/21/2018 5:05:10 PM

Symptoms

When starting up Appian for the first time after a fresh installation, users may see the following error in the application server log:

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

Cause

The MySQL storage engine was configured to use MyISAM instead of InnoDB as the storage engine. See the MySQL documentation here for further details on storage engines.

Action

Make sure MySQL has the InnoDB engine by running the following command in MySQL:

show engines;

Then, set the default storage engine to use InnoDB by running the following command in MySQL:

set GLOBAL storage_engine='InnoDb';

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian using MySQL as a primary database.

Last Reviewed: November 2018

Tags: database, mysql

KB-XXXX "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes" error seen the application server log when starting Appian

Jordan Horwat — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:30:25 GMT

Revision 3 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 11/21/2018 11:30:25 AM

Symptoms

When starting up Appian for the first time after a fresh installation, users may see the following error in the application server log:

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

Cause

The MySQL storage engine was configured to use MyISAM instead of InnoDB as the storage engine. See the MySQL documentation here for further details on storage engines.

Action

Make sure MySQL has the InnoDB engine by running the following command in MySQL:

show engines;

Then, set the default storage engine to use InnoDB by running the following command in MySQL:

set GLOBAL storage_engine='InnoDb';

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian using MySQL as a primary database.

Last Reviewed: November 2018

Tags: database, mysql

KB-XXXX "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes" error seen the application server log when starting Appian

Sean Kim — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:22:37 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Sean Kim on 11/21/2018 11:22:37 AM

Symptoms

When starting up Appian for the first time after a fresh installation, users may see the following error in the application server log:

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

Cause

The MySQL storage engine was configured to use MyISAM instead of InnoDB as the storage engine. See the MySQL documentation here for further details on storage engines.

Action

Make sure MySQL has the InnoDB engine by running the following command in MySQL:

show engines;

Then set the default storage engine to use InnoDB by running the following command in MySQL:

set GLOBAL storage_engine='InnoDb';

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian using MySQL as a primary database.

Last Reviewed: November 2018

Tags: database, mysql

KB-XXXX Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

Sean Kim — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:31:00 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Sean Kim on 11/9/2018 4:31:00 PM

Symptoms

When starting up Appian for the first time after a fresh installation, users may see the following error:

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

Cause

The MySQL storage engine was configured to use MyISAM instead of InnoDB.

Action

Make sure MySQL has the InnoDB engine. Then set the default storage engine to use InnoDB by running the following command in MySQL:

set GLOBAL storage_engine='InnoDb';

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian using MySQL as a primary database.

Last Reviewed: November 2018