Thread: Identifier gets truncated

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:36:32PM +0100, Peter Kroon wrote:
> When an identifier has more then 63 chars it gets truncated.
> This is fine.
> However PostgreSQL fails to notice that it might truncate to an identifier
> which already exist.
> Does PostgreSQL got a setting that will never create a duplicate identifier?
>
> really_long_name_table_A -> really_long_na
> really_long_name_table_B -> really_long_na

Well, if an indenfier truncates to a name that conflicts with another
one, you will get an error:

 test=> create table test(
 test(>
x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111int, 
 test(>
x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111112int); 
 NOTICE:  identifier
"x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111"will
betruncated to "x11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111" 
 NOTICE:  identifier
"x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111112"will
betruncated to "x11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111" 
 ERROR:  column "x11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111" specified more than once

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