Maybe it would be possible to use a compatibility setting, along the
lines of SQL dialect 1 and 3. That must have induced a lot of changes in
a lot of tools, but "they made it". Same goes for identifier length, and
would probably induce a lot less changes in the tools.

I'm not sayin there should be a dialect 4 with longer identifiers, but
perhaps a new DB-level setting?

Kjell

Lester Caine skriver:

>
>
> Sean wrote:
> > Does anyone know why are they are still restricted to only 31
> characters? Why can't they be increased to 64 characters?
> Simply 25 years worth of backwards compatibility with tools and the like.
> If it was going to be easy to change then it would have happened, but it
> is not
> simply a matter of changing some limit, it will require some major
> coordination
> to allow it to happen ... when it does become practical.
>
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