On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:41, villas<[email protected]> wrote: > > I suppose that upload and password fields may be special cases. > > However, it seems to me that 512 default is way too big for normal > string fields. Why so big? Have space considerations become > irrelevant? > > In my apps 90% of strings are less than 128. As field sizes can > always be increased, why not 128 or even 256 for now and simply > increase when necessary?
I agree. I think 32 is lower than general uses of string but 128 or 256 are ok for me. > On Aug 25, 5:53 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a radical proposal of changing the default length of string, >> upload, password fields to 512. This will cause a migration in all >> existing apps. > > -- Álvaro Justen Peta5 - Telecomunicações e Software Livre 21 3021-6001 / 9898-0141 http://www.peta5.com.br/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-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/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

