When running MySQL/MariaDB with charset utf8mb4, a character is 4 bytes. Hence a key created on a VARCHAR(255) takes 255 characters * 4 bytes/characters = 1020 bytes. However Innodb defaults to a maximum of 767 bytes for an index.
The extension fails to install on Debian Stretch which uses utf8mb4 as the default charset:
Query: create table if not exists `betafeatures_user_counts` ( `feature` varchar(255) primary key not null, `number` integer not null default 0 ) ENGINE=InnoDB Function: Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database::sourceFile( /workspace/src/extensions/BetaFeatures/includes/../sql/create_counts.sql ) Error: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes (localhost:/tmp/quibble-mysql-n85izmlw/socket)