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Subject: Re: PGN question for Steven J. Edwards

Author: Danniel Corbit

Date: 07:46:10 06/09/98

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On June 09, 1998 at 09:09:09, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>On June 09, 1998 at 03:59:25, Steven J. Edwards wrote:
>>The maximum length of a string (after escape character processing) is
>>255 characters.  Similarly, the maximum length of a symbol (such as a
>>PGN tag name) is also 255 characters.
>
>Maybe fixed-character limits should be removed?  Or at least enlarged
>significantly...
This would have serious performance implications for some platforms.  If
we use some highly capable database like Rdb, you can get 65000
characters in a column you can index.  But in many database systems, the
max is 255 [and for some it is 254].

• Re: PGN question for Steven J. Edwards Steven J. Edwards 08:05:09 06/09/98
  • Re: PGN question for Steven J. Edwards Danniel Corbit 10:24:57 06/09/98
    • Re: PGN question for Steven J. Edwards Robert Hyatt 16:51:03 06/09/98
      • Re: PGN question for Steven J. Edwards Steven J. Edwards 00:06:27 06/10/98
        • Re: PGN question for Steven J. Edwards Peter Klausler 08:32:17 06/10/98
          • Re: PGN question for Steven J. Edwards Danniel Corbit 14:48:33 06/10/98

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