Re: [HACKERS] Minor bug: inconsistent handling of overlength names

> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I believe Tom Lane has fixed this.
> >> On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>>> DROP INDEX fails on overlength table names:
>
> No, I have *not* fixed it, I only complained about it ;-).
>
> I like your idea of truncating names to 31 characters in the parser;
> this should solve the problem globally. (Most likely, if DROP INDEX
> has a bug then the same bug may exist elsewhere as well.)
>
> Is the limit 31 not 32?

Done.

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