Re: Maximum identifier lengths

Thomas Swan wrote:
> The 7.4 release increased the maximum length for column and table
> identifiers to 64 characters. Are there any plans to increase the
> maximum length out to the SQL spec of 128 characters? I remembered
> some performance penalties for the longer name lengths for hash joins
> but I don't know if any of the many improvements for the 8.0 release
> have change or reduced the penalties for such identifiers.

I have heard no discussion of increasing it, certainly not for 8.0, and
I don't think we have changed anything that would affect the performance
penalty.

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