On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:36:32PM +0100, Peter Kroon wrote: > When an identifier has more then 63 chars it gets truncated. > This is fine. > However PostgreSQL fails to notice that it might truncate to an identifier > which already exist. > Does PostgreSQL got a setting that will never create a duplicate identifier? > > really_long_name_table_A -> really_long_na > really_long_name_table_B -> really_long_na Well, if an indenfier truncates to a name that conflicts with another one, you will get an error: test=> create table test( test(> x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 int, test(> x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111112 int); NOTICE: identifier "x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111" will be truncated to "x11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111" NOTICE: identifier "x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111112" will be truncated to "x11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111" ERROR: column "x11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111" specified more than once -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
