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I know I am way late in running this upgrade, its only been a year!   Everything went great upgrading from v 9.0.2, until the database reload step.   I received an error on multiple tables (core_users,  ecom_orderitems, ecom_orders, and ecom_prod)  like the one below:

"An error was encountered while performing the database load task requested. Error Information: The MySQLi extension encountered a problem submitting an SQL statement. MySQLi reported the error as: Row size too large. The maximum row size for the used table type, not counting BLOBs, is 8126. This includes storage overhead, check the manual. You have to change some columns to TEXT or BLOBs SQL Submitted: ALTER TABLE core_users ADD COLUMN acctsystermsavail VARCHAR(50) DEFAULT ''"


To get around this in the short term, I changed a few fields, that I know we don't use, in each table to TEXT, and made a record of those changes in case it causes a problem down the road. Then reran the database reload step until it blasted through ok.   But I'm interested to know what might be causing this?  I don't think those table records are any where near 8126 bytes.  and none of the tables in the list were ever modified by me.  Any ideas?