Re: [SQL] Column name's length

From: Zalman Stern <zalman(at)netcom(dot)com>
To: maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us (Bruce Momjian)
Cc: tpham(at)mail(dot)priority(dot)net, pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Column name's length
Date: 1999-05-31 06:30:09
Message-ID: 199906010630.XAA23711@netcom12.netcom.com
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I recompiled my server with support for longer (128 character max) table
names. (This was a bit tricky because you have to change things in two
places.) 32 character limits are rather low. 64 or 128 are more reasonable.
(Yes, I know this is controversial. The problem I was having is analogous
to the SERIAL problem: table names are made by concatenating together a few
fields. Each of thee fields can reasonably be 15 or 20 characters. So while
32 characters is fine for a single human generated identifier, it is not
long enough for other purposes.)

-Z-

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