Re: determine sequence name for a serial

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:55:51PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> "Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
>
> > In PostgreSQL, at least for the past 5 years if not longer, if you create a
> > SERIAL column for (schemaname, tablename, columnname), then your sequence
> > will *always* be "schemaname.tablename_columnname_seq". If that naming
> > convention changes, there will be a whole lotta breakage world-wide.
>
> I hope you're wrong about people expecting that to be true because it isn't.
> The resulting sequence name is limited to 63 characters and gets truncated if
> it goes over. (63!? was it intended to be 64?) I believe the limit used to be
> 32 characters too.

The NAMEDATALEN constant is defined to be 64, and that includes the
trailing \0, so identifiers are limited to 63 bytes.

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