| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Zalman Stern <zalman(at)netcom(dot)com> |
| Cc: | tpham(at)mail(dot)priority(dot)net, pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] Column name's length |
| Date: | 1999-06-01 06:36:52 |
| Message-ID: | 199906010636.CAA17071@candle.pha.pa.us |
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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.)
And I assume it is working fine?
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