Would it be safe to change the underlying ubbt_post.post_body and ubbt_post.post_default_body columns from TEXT to MEDIUMTEXT?

We've just had a member who has run into this problem, attempting to edit a message which is actually a little under this limit (62158 characters typed, 62295 characters shown in the SQL error message that is displayed). The message is in the form of a monthly newsletter that he writes, and it frequently gets up to the 50-60k size, but this is the first time it's errored.