layout_builder__layout_section column hitting database limit

Problem/Motivation

I have been working on an installation of Drupal 8 that is making use of the Layout Builder module extensively to build pages with Block Content. After adding about 10 blocks and various layouts to a page the limit for the column is hit resulting in the error:

String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column 'layout_builder__layout_section' at row 2: INSERT INTO {node__layout_builder__layout}

Proposed resolution

Increase the size of the column from blob, to longblob

Remaining tasks

Determine what repercussions could this have

User interface changes

N/A

API changes

N/A

Data model changes

Yes

Release notes snippet

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