[boggseric]

Paul, thanks for the hacks!

Question, I am upgrading my 3.8 forum to 4.2. the forum has quite a few posts (15mil) and modifying the post table on the uninstall of the old mod and then the install of the new version is quite a headache and server intensive.

I was looking at the code and it appears to me the only difference is that the old proxyip field was varchar(20) whereas the new one calls for varchar(15). I'm guessing modifying the product code to not drop this column wouldn't cause a problem right? Those extra 5 characters shouldn't be an issue in my opinion but my database skills are not super high.

So basically before uninstalling the old mod change the code to not drop the column and then modify the new plugin xml to not add the column. Note, I'm not asking for instruction of how to do that I can handle that part, just curious if you think this will break anything or cause problems.