Jeff Levitt (JIRA) wrote:
Document new limits in Derby docs ---------------------------------
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You might want to wait until the patch for DERBY-104 is committed before making this change. That patch was posted by Bernt Johnsen yesterday morning and I just reviewed it today. It has yet to be committed.
These new limits should be documented. [ ... ]
The only items I found were that numeric floating point constants are limited to a length of 30
characters, and index names have an 18 character
max length. Should either or both of those go to 128? Should either of those or both be
placed in the Limitations table (see the link above) as well?
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Based on the patch proposed by Bernt Johnsen, the length of an index name _is_ going to change to 128, while the max length of a floating point constant is going to remain at 30. The max length of an index name is already in the table you mentioned (second row from the bottom, it's given as 18, which will need to change). Since the table header is "identifier length" and all of the entries refer to "names", I would think that the floating point limit should not be included in that table--that's a limit on the literal value itself, not on the name of any particular database identifier.
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