I actually like the 3rd solution from the post you linked to better, but I will probably do the change of the database as well, after making sure I don’t have any meta_keys > 191 characters though. Don’t know about anyone else, by I have a feeling that this effects more than that one query as indicated in the posts. Any time you use a db column in a WHERE or ORDERBY in a query, that field length not matching the key length is going to effect the query, contrary to what is said about it otherwise.
