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From Alessio Bragadini
Subject Re: Truncation of char, varchar types
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In response to Re: Truncation of char, varchar types  (ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers))
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Nathan Myers wrote:

> (Very long names may show up in machine- generated schemas.) Would
> patches for this, e.g. to refuse to create a table with an impossible
> name, be welcome?

Yes. And throw in the picture also the length of sequences coming from
SERIALs, etc.

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