MySql - Create a view with longtext cast into VARCHAR(255)

I am willing to create a view on a table with a longtext column. But I would like that in my view this column be varchar(255). And Yes I would like 开发者_开发技巧to cut the "extra" text.

When I do a substr in the create script the data type is still longtext

Anyone could help me ?

Thanks

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How about casting the longtext as a varchar?

 CREATE VIEW foo AS
 SELECT ID, CAST(MyLongText as char(255)) AS MyVarchar
 FROM Table