Re: [SQL] Column name's length

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> Hi,
>
> Is there anyway you can increase the length of a column's name? The length
> for one of my column is 21 characters and the server choke on that when i'm
> trying to create the table. I'm using version 6.4.2. Below is the actual
> error message i got:
>
> postgres=> create table timeclockdepartment (
> postgres-> timeclockdepartmentid serial ,
> postgres-> name varchar (50) );
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or
> while pr
> ocessing the request.
> We have lost the connection to the backend, so further processing is
> impossible.
> Terminating.

The 6.5beta error message of the same statement is:

test=> create table timeclockdepartment (
test-> timeclockdepartmentid serial ,name varchar (50) );
ERROR: CREATE TABLE/SERIAL implicit sequence name must be less than 32
characters
Sum of lengths of 'timeclockdepartment' and
'timeclockdepartmentid' must be less than 27

Serial creates it's own table, that is the sum of the table name and
column name. We have not figured out a workaround for this.

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