Feeds with long links are never imported

[matthew.gregg@…]

Feeds that contain items with links longer than 255 chars are never imported. Here is an example feed that exibits this behavior: http://rss.indeed.com/rss?q=python

[mbonetti]

For reference:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html

set sql_mode = 'STRICT_TRANS_TABLES';

this triggers an error when the string overalps, but the above requires mysql 5.0.2