TYPO3 Core

I could reproduce the problem with your description in latest master (11-dev).

The exception also occurs whenever the content element is modified in any way later.

I have the same problem with a pure link field in a separate table.
Here, too, an attempt is made to make an ID out of the telephone number.

'link' => [
            'exclude' => false,
            'label' => 'LINKFELD',
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'input',
                'renderType' => 'inputLink',
                'size' => 20,
                'max' => 1024,
                'fieldControl' => [
                    'linkPopup' => [
                        'options' => [
                            'title' => 'LLL:EXT:core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_tca.xlf:sys_file_reference.link',
                        ],
                    ],
                ],
                'softref' => 'typolink',
            ],
        ],

On TYPO3 12 and 13 I got an exception with the following test:

1) Create a page
2) Create a CE (e.g. CType = header)
3) paste into the Link [header_link] field the number: 012345678910
4) Save it

Result¶

An exception occurs:

(1/3) #1264 Doctrine\DBAL\Exception\DriverException
An exception occurred while executing a query: Out of range value for column 'ref_uid' at row 1

in /var/www/html/vendor/doctrine/dbal/src/Driver/API/MySQL/ExceptionConverter.php line 117

By the way: the number is saved anyway...

You can avoid the issue by pasting in the field: tel:012345678910

It is better to pull out a message error (like: "link type not recognized" or whatever) instead of throwing an exception.

would it be a good idea that the field should validate only strings entered that begins with

t3://
http(s)://
tel:
mailto:

?