[TYPO3-core] length and usage of column "ident" of table "cash_hash"

[Martin Kutschker]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> I've run into a portability problem of Mysql: the silent length 
> truncation of data. All other DBSs choke if strings are too long for a 
> column.
> 
> The problem in particular is the ident field. Some extension (eg 
> automaketemplate) use the field. That is they fill it, but the don't use 
> it. Otherwise it might have been noticed that a value of 
> "tx_automaketemplate_pi1" will be truncated to "tx_automaketemplate_".
> 
> What to do now?
> 
> We could enlarge the column (20 chars is not extremely) long. Nice but 
> not really necessary.

As it just broke my installation on PostgreSQL...

Can I make the varchar 50 chars long? It doesn't really matter but saves 
all DBAL users who happen to use automaketemplate the trouble in finding 
the problem.

Masi