Re: [HACKERS] A notice for too long names

> Wouldn't it be fair if a notice was generated if you attempt to create
> and/or reference a name that's longer than NAMEDATALEN. Like
>
> => create table some_really_much_too_long_name_here ( ... );
> NOTICE: "some_really_much_too_long_name_here" will be truncated to
> "some_really_much_too_long_name_" [ <possible reference to documentation
> and/or source code to change this> ]
> Better than finding out after the fact, ISTM. I could (try to) take care
> of this.

Would it be better to throw an elog(ERROR)? The only place I know of
where names are silently truncated is in generating primary and unique
indices, where the names are based on the underlying table name plus
some automatically generated discriminator.

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California