Tom Lane wrote: > "Mark McEahern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom, thanks for your reply. I am now able to create databases and users > > with longer names, but I am unable to login with the long username. > > I think you're stuck on that, unless you want to be *really* > incompatible with the rest of the world. The startup packet format has > hard-wired field sizes --- see src/include/libpq/pqcomm.h: > > #define SM_DATABASE 64 > #define SM_USER 32 > #define SM_OPTIONS 64 > #define SM_UNUSED 64 > #define SM_TTY 64 > > Don't ask me why SM_USER is different from the rest :-( > > If you change these I'd strongly advise bumping the protocol minor > version number, so that you don't have weird behavior should you try > to interoperate with standard code. > > This is another thing that should be on the list of stuff to fix when > we next change the FE/BE protocol ...
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