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[DDC-2288] Schema Tool doesn't update collation on table level

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:50:30 +0000

In Symfony2, when updating the collation option of a table, the schema tool doesn't recognize the change:

Changing from:

 
* @ORM\Table()

To:

 
* @ORM\Table(options={"collate"="utf8_swedish_ci"})

Results in:

 
$ php app/console doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql
Nothing to update - your database is already in sync with the current entity metadata.

[DDC-2286] Update documentation for collation

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:27:56 +0000

The documentation at http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/latest/reference/faq.html#how-do-i-set-the-charset-and-collation-for-mysql-tables clearly states that the collation should be set at database level and then inherited for all tables created.

Digging through the code and reading this issue http://www.doctrine-project.org/jira/browse/DDC-2139 it's clear that this is no longer the case.

[DDC-2139] Table collate/charset doesn't inherits from database

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:25:30 +0000

Using symfony2 command doctrine:schema:create the tables and Varchar fields are Collate/Charset are not inherited from database. I changed MySQL defaults to latin1/latin1_general_ci; The doctrine:database:create works; but tables and fields don't. So I found there is a code on MySqlPlataform.php:

if ( ! isset($options['charset']))

{ $options['charset'] = 'utf8'; }

if ( ! isset($options['collate']))

{ $options['collate'] = 'utf8_unicode_ci'; }

$query .= 'DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ' . $options['charset'];
$query .= ' COLLATE ' . $options['collate'];

So if you don't pass collate and charset as entity options, it will put utf8 and utf8_unicode_ci instead of dabatase default charset.

My suggestion is to change a little bit to:

if (isset($options['charset']))

{ $query .= 'DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ' . $options['charset']; }

if (isset($options['collate']))

{ $query .= ' COLLATE ' . $options['collate']; }

[DDC-1274] there is no way to set collate of the table charset !

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:54:22 +0000

i searched a lot for this

there is no way to set the collate of table fields to for ex. utf8_persian_ci in doctrine settings