[Building Sakai] Installing 2.9.0

[Mark J. Norton]

I got a database table create error on installing 2.9.0:

2012-11-30 08:09:32,172  WARN pool-2-thread-1 
org.sakaiproject.springframework.orm.hibernate.AddableSessionFactoryBean 
- Unsuccessful schema statement:

create table EMAIL_TEMPLATE_ITEM (ID bigint not null auto_increment, 
LAST_MODIFIED datetime not null, OWNER varchar(255) not null, SUBJECT 
longtext not null, emailfrom varchar(255), MESSAGE longtext not null, 
HTMLMESSAGE longtext, TEMPLATE_KEY varchar(255) not null, 
TEMPLATE_LOCALE varchar(255), defaultType varchar(255), VERSION integer, 
primary key (ID), unique (TEMPLATE_KEY, TEMPLATE_LOCALE))

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was 
too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

This seems odd to me, since a bigint isn't 1000 bytes long (to my 
knowledge).  Could this be an incorrect MySQL setting somewhere?

- Mark Norton