Re: Allowing for longer table names (>64 characters)

From: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Allowing for longer table names (>64 characters)
Date: 2009-11-20 09:21:18
Message-ID: 20091120092118.GA20234@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Allan Kamau :
> Hi all,
> I would like to increase the database objects names limit from 64
> characters to may be 128 characters to avoid name conflicts after
> truncation of long table/sequence names.
> I have seen a solution to this sometime back which includes (building
> from source) modifying a header file then recompiling, but I now
> cannot find this information.

In the source-tree, src/include/pg_config_manual.h , change NAMEDATALEN.
But i think it's a bad idea ... 64 characters are enough for me.

Andreas
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