Re: [HACKERS] Long table names

> Hi there.
> 
> I remember someone talking about compiling pgsql so that it could use 
> table names longer than 32 bytes, but that it would require some 
> changes in the source code. Could anyone tell me what changes these 
> are, and how safe it would be to do it (that is, should I assume that 
> I could just compile a newer version making the same changes to the 
> sources, and have anyone experienced anything broken using the longer 
> table names)???
> 
> Yours faithfully.
> Finn Kettner.
> PS. The main reasong for the longer table names is not the tables 
> themself, but the indexes etc. that are constructed automatically 
> using e.g. serial fields.

That serial table name is fixed in 6.5.*.

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