"Nikolaus Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> DB2 (tested with V7.1 FP3) does not accept names for constraints longer than
> 18 chars. Using the TDK (2.1b4) as is, the build process will give a hard
> time for the unintended, since the security management tables will have
> constraints with longer names. I want to ask here for a possibility to add
> length limit properties for DB object names into the "project.properties"
> file. These delimiters could be used to trim object names exceeding the
> limits according to some "trimming rules" realized by velocy macros. IMHO,
> it seems to be far easier to "trim" the constraint names by hand for now.
> Does the Peer subsys access the constraints of the turbine tables by name in
> any way?

We definitely need a way to define column/constraint name maximum
lengths per database, and to handle trimming for all names to unique
values in a consistant manner.  Patches welcome, commentary also
appreciated.

> My Turbine/DB2 experience of the last days will get assembled into a short
> doc, and might get included into the TDK doc and shorten a tiny part of the
> learning curve.

Excellent!  Please submit a patch based on the appropriate xdoc.

Daniel

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