Re: Length of table/column names
Posted in 1998
Chuck Renaud — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
> There is no null terminator. Anyhow, for now the 18 character limit is a > hard limit. Version 7.31 is supposed to remove that restriction and allow > 256 character identifiers so you can start posting to the other newsgroups > about their names being to restrictive soon ;-) I wouldn't hold my breath on seeing that limit changed in 7.31...I've been told it won't be in that release and I haven't seen anything on it in the beta. Keep in mind that the current ANSI standard is 18 characters. Not that I wouldn't like to see that feature myself (though I've heard the limit is 128 chars in 9.2).