Addressfield change max size of column

Question

I'm working with the addressfield module. I need to change the thoroughfare column to have a max length of 960 (or make it a text instead of varchar) instead of the default 255.

However I'm not sure how I should do it.

I've created an empty module with a hook_schema_alter()

function hook_schema_alter(&$schema) {
  $schema['addressfield']['thoroughfare'] = array(
    'description' => 'The thoroughfare of this address. (i.e. Street address)',
    'type' => 'text',
    'default' => '',
    'not null' => FALSE,
  );
  return $schema;
}

However I suspect that the part "$schema['addressfield']['thoroughfare']" is not correct. Nothing is changed when I install the module with this hook.

How to change it? In the original addressfield it returns only columns in the schema hook, it's not really linked to a schema itself?

Answer 1

That approach won't affect the column type or size as I get you need to make it store more chars.

You could do hook_update_N() that execute a sql query to change the field type and size.

Then yo have to change field settings see