From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Finn Kettner <fk(at)akf(dot)dk> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Long table names |
Date: | 1999-08-16 18:01:42 |
Message-ID: | 199908161801.OAA06503@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Hi there.
>
> I remember someone talking about compiling pgsql so that it could use
> table names longer than 32 bytes, but that it would require some
> changes in the source code. Could anyone tell me what changes these
> are, and how safe it would be to do it (that is, should I assume that
> I could just compile a newer version making the same changes to the
> sources, and have anyone experienced anything broken using the longer
> table names)???
>
> Yours faithfully.
> Finn Kettner.
> PS. The main reasong for the longer table names is not the tables
> themself, but the indexes etc. that are constructed automatically
> using e.g. serial fields.
That serial table name is fixed in 6.5.*.
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