[PLUG] Package Name Lengths in different distros

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Jun 10 02:36:35 UTC 2022


On Fri, 10 Jun 2022, Ben Koenig wrote:

> How high should I set the limit?

Ben,

I don't use mariadb but it's likely to have a data type such as 'text' or
'varchar', both of which have no defined limit. Using such a data type on
your package name removes the issue of the name's length. This data type is
useful for a column that stores a comment or description the length of which
varies greatly from row to row.

HTH,

Rich



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