diff --git a/installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql b/installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql
index a6f84562ff..494691af1d 100644
--- a/installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql
+++ b/installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql
@@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ CREATE TABLE ratings (
 DROP TABLE IF EXISTS quotes;
 CREATE TABLE `quotes` (
   `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
-  `source` varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `source` text DEFAULT NULL,
   `text` mediumtext NOT NULL,
   `timestamp` datetime NOT NULL,
   PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
diff --git a/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl b/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
index 500e25ab57..399506eda1 100755
--- a/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
+++ b/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
@@ -5252,7 +5252,7 @@ if ( C4::Context->preference("Version") < TransformToNum($DBversion) ) {
         $dbh->do( qq{
             CREATE TABLE `quotes` (
               `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
-              `source` varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL,
+              `source` text DEFAULT NULL,
               `text` mediumtext NOT NULL,
               `timestamp` datetime NOT NULL,
               PRIMARY KEY (`id`)