11 characters????

Posted by Thomas Mercer-Hursh on 28-Mar-2014 13:40

Why in the world in 2014 and version 11.3.2 are we limited to 11 character DB names?

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Posted by Kandavel Elangovan on 28-Mar-2014 14:23

Maybe because of version 11 :)

Kandavel

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Why in the world in 2014 and version 11.3.2 are we limited to 11 character DB names?

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Posted by ChUIMonster on 28-Mar-2014 14:27

The hostname also has a 30(ish) character limit.

I think it is so that you will have enough characters left to be able to tweet it :)

Posted by Etienne Begin on 28-Mar-2014 17:05

^^ awesome reply Tom...

Posted by gus on 31-Mar-2014 10:46

@tmh: because it takes work to change this. sure, it would be nice if the limit were higher. but should this be a high priority ? does it really matter?

Posted by Thomas Mercer-Hursh on 31-Mar-2014 10:57

Much work?  It is a silly limitation.  E.g., I am doing some tool work at the moment where I need to frequently refresh a database with an empty copy prior to running a fresh test.  The database is called Analysis, so I thought I would name the empty copy AnalysisEmpty ... sorry, too long, so I am stuck with AnalysisEmp.

Posted by gus on 31-Mar-2014 12:29

it would be nice to change it. unfortunately, the name appears in various on-disk data structures and in several network messages. so it is not just a simple matter of changing one constant's definition from 11 to 255.

Posted by Thomas Mercer-Hursh on 08-Apr-2014 16:28

How about 12 character stream names ....

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