Re: column name length - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ian Barwick
Subject Re: column name length
Date
Msg-id 200203100838.JAA28877@post.webmailer.de
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In response to column name length  (Felipe Nascimento <Felipe.Nascimento@multivalor.com.br>)
List pgsql-admin
On Saturday 09 March 2002 01:21, Felipe Nascimento wrote:
> Is there a max length (number of characters) to column names??
>
> I received the following:
> identifier "petb_convidado_partida_participante" will be truncated to
> "petb_convidado_partida_particip"
>
> Tks
> Felipe

system identifiers are limited in the default configuration
to 31 characters, as has been pointed out, you will need to
rebuild PostgreSQL to change this value.

HOWTO:

in the file

  src/include/postgres_ext.h

change NAMEDATALEN to your desired value + 1
(current setting is 32, which gives a maximum length of 31
characters).

Changing NAMEDATALEN to a greater value is on the todo-list, see:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2002-01/msg00941.php


Ian Barwick

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