diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 21cd4dba9..f28159ad7 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2002-04-15 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+	* config.inc.php3: put the most popular column types first in the list,
+	  (Feature #544066)
+
 2002-04-14 Alexander M. Turek  <rabus@users.sourceforge.net>
 	* Documentation.*: Added some notes about MySQL 4.
 	* db_details.php3, tbl_change.php3, tbl_properties.php3,
diff --git a/config.inc.php3 b/config.inc.php3
index 4c665c778..b0655c06f 100755
--- a/config.inc.php3
+++ b/config.inc.php3
@@ -207,9 +207,13 @@ $cfgRepeatCells         = 100;          // repeat header names every X cells? (0
 /**
  * MySQL settings
  */
-// Column types
+// Column types;
+// varchar, tinyint, text and date are listed first, based on estimated popularity
 $cfgColumnTypes = array(
+   'VARCHAR',
    'TINYINT',
+   'TEXT',
+   'DATE',
    'SMALLINT',
    'MEDIUMINT',
    'INT',
@@ -217,16 +221,13 @@ $cfgColumnTypes = array(
    'FLOAT',
    'DOUBLE',
    'DECIMAL',
-   'DATE',
    'DATETIME',
    'TIMESTAMP',
    'TIME',
    'YEAR',
    'CHAR',
-   'VARCHAR',
    'TINYBLOB',
    'TINYTEXT',
-   'TEXT',
    'BLOB',
    'MEDIUMBLOB',
    'MEDIUMTEXT',