diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ed3d4e932f..3dd57c3735 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2004-04-07 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * tbl_change.php, bug 931034, big number data entry,
+      thanks to Dmitry (yrtimd)
+ 
 2004-04-06 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * main.php, complete the fix for bug 922054
 
diff --git a/tbl_change.php b/tbl_change.php
index f0b32f5d97..815d1e0f1f 100644
--- a/tbl_change.php
+++ b/tbl_change.php
@@ -744,12 +744,15 @@ foreach($loop_array AS $vrowcount => $vrow) {
             // types (int or float), the length is not a limit on the values that
             // can be entered, so let's be generous (20) (we could also use the
             // real limits for each numeric type)
+            // 2004-04-07, it turned out that 20 was not generous enough
+            // for the maxlength
             if ($is_char) {
                 $fieldsize = (($len > 40) ? 40 : $len);
                 $maxlength = $len;
             }
             else {
-                $fieldsize = $maxlength = 20;
+                $fieldsize = 20;
+                $maxlength = 99;
             } // end if... else...
             echo "\n";
             ?>