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When did 8 character username restriction change?

Posted in 2000

Topics: General Discussion

Fuzzy — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out when usernames/userid's where allowed to be longer than eight characters. In 7.12 (yeah, I know that's old), I used to get good old -576 errors if I tried to use ids longer than 8 characters. Now, in IFS2000, I can go crazy (e.g. I have a used "bloodylongusername" successfully.) Does anyone know when (i.e. what version) the limit was removed/increased? Ciao Fuzzy #;-)

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Fuzzy — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 03:58:16 GMT, granta@nospam.student.canberra.edu.au (Fuzzy) wrote: >In 7.12 (yeah, I know that's old), I used to get good old -576 errors oops ... meant -578 errors ... typo, sorry. Ciao Fuzzy :-)

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Art S. Kagel — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Fuzzy wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to figure out when usernames/userid's where allowed to be > longer than eight characters. > > In 7.12 (yeah, I know that's old), I used to get good old -576 errors > if I tried to use ids longer than 8 characters. Now, in IFS2000, I > can go crazy (e.g. I have a used "bloodylongusername" successfully.) > > Does anyone know when (i.e. what version) the limit was > removed/increased? Long identifiers were introduced in 9.20 (IDS.2000/IIF.2000). All identifiers (ie tablenames, columnnames, databasenames, etc) are now 128 bytes long rather than 18 bytes and usernames are now restricted to 32 bytes rather than 8. Art S. Kagel

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Fuzzy — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:55:55 -0400, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote: >Fuzzy wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to figure out when usernames/userid's where allowed to be >> longer than eight characters. >> >> In 7.12 (yeah, I know that's old), I used to get good old -576 errors >> if I tried to use ids longer than 8 characters. Now, in IFS2000, I >> can go crazy (e.g. I have a used "bloodylongusername" successfully.) >> >> Does anyone know when (i.e. what version) the limit was >> removed/increased? > >Long identifiers were introduced in 9.20 (IDS.2000/IIF.2000). All >identifiers (ie tablenames, columnnames, databasenames, etc) are now 128 >bytes long rather than 18 bytes and usernames are now restricted to 32 bytes >rather than 8. > >Art S. Kagel Thanks Art, that's exactly what I needed. Ciao Fuzzy ;-)

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