We have not made a final decision on our database engine. I actually prefer Postgresql. During early development I also am probably wrong about the "most databases" statement above . Oracle (I believe) is limited to 30 characters (MySQL is 64). Postgresql 7.2 had a limit of 32 characters.
On Dec 16, 10:20 pm, Christophe Pettus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > I find this interesting - but have been unable to find any > > documentation for > > postgresql/sql that points to this 31 character limit - any clues? > > By default, identifiers in PostgreSQL are limited to 63 characters, > although that can be changed with a compile-time option: > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-syntax-lexical.htm... > > (Longer identifiers are truncated; it's not an error to write them.) > > To be fair, though, the OP did not call out PostgreSQL in particular, > just "most databases." > > -- > -- Christophe Pettus > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
