title: Most efficient way to store URLs in Mysql?
body: <p>I want to store a large set of URLs in MySql and create a unique index on the column.  If I make the column utf8 then I'll be limited to a varchar(333), which is not enough to hold some of my URLs.  If I declare the column to be latin1 then I get the full 1000 characters (don't think I need that much).  However, I'll have to encode the URL and be consistent about always working with the encoded URL.  Is there a better way to manage large sets of URLs?</p>