Default as of 5.7. Now enforces that NOT NULL fields are nott attempted
to be set to NULL (like whenever we do an insert without specifying a
text/blob field value (which can't have defaults))
This actually matters now that we have namespaces, and there's no reason
not to bring it up to 255 characters. mysql is going to use 1 size byte
as long as we're below a maximum of 256 characters