On 2024-May-06, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Monday, May 6, 2024, Peter Burbery <petercullenburb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Business Use-case: I want to create a table named things_that_take_up_a_ > > lot_of_storage_and_space_on_a_computer_and_hard_drive of 75 characters. I > > also want to create a column named thing_that_takes_up_a_ > > lot_of_storage_and_space_on_a_computer_and_hard_drive_id of 78 > > characters. People have asked for this feature before. > > We have a mailing list archive. You should do the same research of past > requests and discussions on it since that is where you will find the > developers involved in the discussion and can find out the past reasoning > as to why this hasn’t been changed.
There's been a lot of discussion on this topic -- the most recent seems to be [1] which will lead you to the older patches by John Naylor at [2]. In short, it's not that we're completely opposed to it, just that somebody needs to do some more work in order to have a good implementation for it. [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/324703.1696948627%40sss.pgh.pa.us [2] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALSd-crdmj9PGdvdioU%3Da5W7P%3DTgNmEB2QP9wiF6DTUbBuMXrQ%40mail.gmail.com -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "La primera ley de las demostraciones en vivo es: no trate de usar el sistema. Escriba un guión que no toque nada para no causar daños." (Jakob Nielsen)
