[TYPO3-core] RFC: #8399: field tablename in sys_refindex too short

Steffen Kamper steffen at sk-typo3.de
Wed May 14 15:53:49 CEST 2008


"Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]" <dmitry at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1210771976.13018.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>> So attached patch change all fields containing tablenames to the same 
>> value of 64
>
> Why 64? VARCHAR can hold 255. Why not set it to 255?
>
> I never could understand 64 or 80 in such cases, really! :)
>
> -- 

Hi Dmitry,

i discussed that with olly and we tried to find the "longest" possible name 
for a table and ended up with 61 :)

So i thought if i use varchar(255) that this space is reserved in each 
record internally so table size is growing more than needed. If it's not, 
please correct me.

vg Steffen 




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