dfdffa57a180281078f1158f56d01a78e82bc3f9
hiram
  Tue Sep 27 10:09:55 2016 -0700
note field is actually a longblob not varchar refs #13673

diff --git src/hg/lib/ncbiRefSeqLink.sql src/hg/lib/ncbiRefSeqLink.sql
index 14297dd..d79f553 100644
--- src/hg/lib/ncbiRefSeqLink.sql
+++ src/hg/lib/ncbiRefSeqLink.sql
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 # ncbiRefSeqLink.sql was originally generated by the autoSql program, which also 
 # generated ncbiRefSeqLink.c and ncbiRefSeqLink.h.  This creates the database representation of
 # an object which can be loaded and saved from RAM in a fairly 
 # automatic way.
 
 #Metadata for NCBI RefSeq tracks
 CREATE TABLE ncbiRefSeqLink (
     id varchar(255) not null,	# id for this gene or curated item
     status varchar(255) not null,	# Inferred, Model, Predicted, Provisional, Reviewed, Validated, Unknown
     name varchar(255) not null,	# gene name
     product varchar(255) not null,	# product
     mrnaAcc varchar(255) not null,	# transcript_id
     protAcc varchar(255) not null,	# protein_id
     locusLinkId varchar(255) not null,	# locus link identifier, from Dbxref
     omimId varchar(255) not null,	# OMIM identifier, from Dbxref
     hgnc varchar(255) not null,	# HGNC identifier, from Dbxref
     genbank varchar(255) not null,	# genbank identifier from Dbxref
     pseudo varchar(255) not null,	# 'true' if pseudo gene, or n/a
     gbkey varchar(255) not null,	# genbank key: Gene, mRNA, ncRNA, rRNA, tRNA, etc...
     source varchar(255) not null,	# source: RefSeq, tRNAscan-SE, Gnomon, Curated Genomic, BestRefSeq
     gene_biotype varchar(255) not null,	# bio type: protein_coding, pseudogene, C_region, J_segment_pseudogene, other
     gene_synonym varchar(255) not null,	# list of synonym names
     ncrna_class varchar(255) not null,	# type of RNA: miRNA, lncRNA, snoRNA, etc...
-    note varchar(255) not null,	# other notes from genbank record
+    note longblob not null,	        # other notes from genbank record
     description longblob not null,	# description from rna gbff record via gbProcess
               #Indices
     PRIMARY KEY(id),
     index(name),
     index(mrnaAcc),
     index(protAcc)
 );