Re: [Firebird-devel] RDB$CONFIG.RDB$CONFIG_NAME datatype

2021-01-20 Thread Vlad Khorsun
20.01.2021 15:43, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: On 20/01/2021 10:03, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: I suppose VARCHAR(63) CHARACTER SET ASCII is OK. I agree. Seems, we have agreement, very well. Thanks all, Vlad Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at

Re: [Firebird-devel] RDB$CONFIG.RDB$CONFIG_NAME datatype

2021-01-20 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 20/01/2021 10:03, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: > > I suppose VARCHAR(63) CHARACTER SET ASCII is OK. > I agree. Adriano Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel

Re: [Firebird-devel] RDB$CONFIG.RDB$CONFIG_NAME datatype

2021-01-20 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
20.01.2021 16:03, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: I agree that config parameters hardly can be not in ASCII but I cannot imagine them to be longer that 10-20 characters. It would be very hard to type such long settings without errors and my imagination is not enough to suggest a meaningful name of

Re: [Firebird-devel] RDB$CONFIG.RDB$CONFIG_NAME datatype

2021-01-20 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
20.01.2021 13:41, Vlad Khorsun wrote:   Today we discussed these reasons with Dmitry and agreed that it is not very convincing. For example, we have no intention to have non-ASCII names of settings in firebird.conf and 63 characters could be not enough at some day. I agree that config

Re: [Firebird-devel] RDB$CONFIG.RDB$CONFIG_NAME datatype

2021-01-20 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 1/20/21 3:41 PM, Vlad Khorsun wrote: Hi, all   I'll speak about new table RDB$CONFIG introduced with implementation of CORE-3708.   The field RDB$CONFIG_NAME has datatype defined as VARCHAR(63) CHARACTER SET UTF8. The original reasons behind this choice was: - UTF8 as charset for most

[Firebird-devel] RDB$CONFIG.RDB$CONFIG_NAME datatype

2021-01-20 Thread Vlad Khorsun
Hi, all I'll speak about new table RDB$CONFIG introduced with implementation of CORE-3708. The field RDB$CONFIG_NAME has datatype defined as VARCHAR(63) CHARACTER SET UTF8. The original reasons behind this choice was: - UTF8 as charset for most system defined fields, - VARCHAR(63) to