Re: identiers > 18 characters possible??

Posted in 1997

Ian Goddard — Sun, 11 May 1997 23:52:17 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

David Williams wrote: > > > I though the the ANSI (SQL-92?) standard defines a maximum of 18 > characters for table/column names? > I thought so too, last time we covered this. Someone (possibly johnl) said that this has been removed from later versions of ANSI - but changing the engine to take advantage can't be easy. Ian