Why in the world in 2014 and version 11.3.2 are we limited to 11 character DB names?
Maybe because of version 11 :)
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[collapse]Thread created by Thomas Mercer-HurshWhy in the world in 2014 and version 11.3.2 are we limited to 11 character DB names?
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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 :)
^^ awesome reply Tom...
@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?
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.
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.
How about 12 character stream names ....