Title: Error saving form : "Row size too large(…)"
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Error saving form : "Row size too large(…)"

 *  Resolved [jls](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jls/)
 * (@jls)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-saving-form-row-size-too-large/)
 * First I must say that this is a great plug-in!!!
 * I’m using version 1.5.9 on 3.1.2 WordPress site.
 * When saving a new form with more than 22 fields I get the following error:
    “
   Row size too large. The maximum row size for the used table type, not counting
   BLOBs, is 65535. You have to change some columns to TEXT or BLOBs”
 * Is there any way around this issue?
 * Best regards,

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 *  Plugin Author [hoffcamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoffcamp/)
 * (@hoffcamp)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-saving-form-row-size-too-large/#post-2123851)
 * Thanks! I’ll see what I can do. If you have access to your database you could
   change the column types yourself, but I’ll add something to the form settings
   that lets you modify this for the next update.
 *  Plugin Author [hoffcamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoffcamp/)
 * (@hoffcamp)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-saving-form-row-size-too-large/#post-2123853)
 * I have a temporary fix for you. The ‘text area’ type uses TEXT, so you could 
   make some of your fields text areas with a height of 20px or so.
 *  Plugin Author [hoffcamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoffcamp/)
 * (@hoffcamp)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-saving-form-row-size-too-large/#post-2123922)
 * In 1.5.10 there is a section under ‘advanced’ in the forms editor called ‘submission
   data’, which lets you change the column type via a MySQL column definition. If
   you want to change the max length of the data stored, say to 50 characters, you
   would just the VARCHAR(1000) part to VARCHAR(50) and not worry about the rest.
   You could also put in “TEXT NOT NULL”, which is a perfectly valid column definition
   all by itself, and that would also solve your problem.
 *  Thread Starter [jls](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jls/)
 * (@jls)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-saving-form-row-size-too-large/#post-2124000)
 * Thank you Hoffcamp!
 * You are doing a great job with this plug-in.
 * Best regards,

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