Subject Re: [IB-Conversions] Re: Key size too long (from Oracle to Interbase)
Author Nando Dessena
Bruno,

> Thanks to Claudio and Helen for their reply ... Hmmm ... I don't like
> very much to have a limit of 255 bytes on the length of my keys ...
> What am I suppose to do if I need to have and combined index for a
> two or three fields that are varchar(100) each ? Change my design and
> screw up my code?

FWIW, I believe that the design is screwed up enough by itself if you
need primary keys that large; I agree that the limitation should be
removed, though, even if I don't think I would ever run into it myself.
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