Re-indexing not happening for the catalog_product_flat - got the error Syntax error or access violation: 1118 Row size too large

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Re-indexing not happening for the catalog_product_flat getting the below error.

Syntax error or access violation: 1118 Row size too large. The maximum row size for the used table type, not counting BLOBs, is 65535. This inc ludes storage overhead, check the manual. You have to change some columns to TEX T or BLOBs, query was: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS catalog_product_flat_1_tmp_in dexer ( entity_id int UNSIGNED NOT NULL COMMENT 'Entity Id' , attribute_set_id smallint UNSIGNED NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT 'Attribute S et ID' ,