grouper_members ddl is too large for some mysql configurations

im getting this in mysql for grouper_members... change size of search strings to 1500 instead of 2048

Caused by: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Row size too large. The maximum row size for the used table type, not counting BLOBs, is 65535. This includes storage overhead, check the manual. You have to change some columns to TEXT or BLOBs