hello @asmecher thanks for the advice on this issue.
Yesterday I had gone back to attempting the upgrade from 2.4.8 to 3.2.1, however i still needed to get passed the publication_settings.setting_value MEDIUMTEXT issue, so I devised a workaround shown in the attached image. I didn’t consider open a request to merge because I saw you already merged a fix in 3.3.x.
That workaround allowed the 3.2.1 upgrade script to successfully finish, however when navigating through the new site there seems to be a problem with links in the Journal. I’ll create a new post for that problem, but this issue could serve as context.
Thanks again