Remove all types which doctrine dbal does not support

[Temepest74]

I know this is a long lasting battle, where Laravel teams blame the dbal team, and vice versa. But I think Laravel should remove types such as tiny int and every other type not supported by doctrine dbal.

I feel like they exists only to confuse new people to coming to Laravel. Like, fine, I need a small data type, I use tiny int, now I need to rename it, oh cool, I MUST change the type to short int (or smth else), then rename it, then leave it as short int cuz why bother with the process again?

[henzeb]

Or under the hood use the next best choice. So I don't have to remember that a varchar is a string in laravel....

[hafezdivandari]

This is already fixed on v9.44:

• [9.x] Add support for native rename/drop column commands #45258
• https://laravel-news.com/laravel-9-44-0
• [10.x] Add support for native column modifying #45487

You have native renaming and dropping since 9.44 and native modifying since Laravel 10.

[Temepest74]

Is this anywhere inside the docs? I cant find it

[hafezdivandari]

Yes, here it is:

• https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/migrations#renaming-columns
• https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/migrations#modifying-columns
• [9.x] Remove Doctrine DBAL from prerequisites of renaming/dropping column docs#8396
• [10.x] Support native column modifying docs#8456

[Temepest74]

Yes, here it is:

• https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/migrations#renaming-columns
• https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/migrations#modifying-columns
• [9.x] Remove Doctrine DBAL from prerequisites of renaming/dropping column docs#8396
• [10.x] Support native column modifying docs#8456

Hmm, they should have noted this inside the 9 to 10 upgrade guide :/ Thank you