diff --git a/tavern/internal/ent/migrate/schema.go b/tavern/internal/ent/migrate/schema.go
index 971ee5268..025500e89 100644
--- a/tavern/internal/ent/migrate/schema.go
+++ b/tavern/internal/ent/migrate/schema.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ var (
 		{Name: "name", Type: field.TypeString, Unique: true},
 		{Name: "size", Type: field.TypeInt, Default: 0},
 		{Name: "hash", Type: field.TypeString, Size: 100},
-		{Name: "content", Type: field.TypeBytes},
+		{Name: "content", Type: field.TypeBytes, SchemaType: map[string]string{"mysql": "LONGBLOB"}},
 	}
 	// FilesTable holds the schema information for the "files" table.
 	FilesTable = &schema.Table{
diff --git a/tavern/internal/ent/schema/file.go b/tavern/internal/ent/schema/file.go
index e047cbffa..9197e601b 100644
--- a/tavern/internal/ent/schema/file.go
+++ b/tavern/internal/ent/schema/file.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 
 	"entgo.io/contrib/entgql"
 	"entgo.io/ent"
+	"entgo.io/ent/dialect"
 	"entgo.io/ent/schema"
 	"entgo.io/ent/schema/edge"
 	"entgo.io/ent/schema/field"
@@ -40,6 +41,9 @@ func (File) Fields() []ent.Field {
 			MaxLen(100).
 			Comment("A SHA3-256 digest of the content field"),
 		field.Bytes("content").
+			SchemaType(map[string]string{
+				dialect.MySQL: "LONGBLOB", // Override MySQL, improve length maximum
+			}).
 			Annotations(
 				entgql.Skip(), // Don't return file content in GraphQL queries
 			).