Author: Steven J. Edwards
Date: 08:05:09 06/09/98
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On June 09, 1998 at 10:46:10, Danniel Corbit wrote: >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]. Some compilers enforce a silent limit of 31 characters per symbol of significance and there aren't too many problems with that. Strings need to be longer; for example, a FEN spcification may hit more than 80 characters in some cases. -- Steven (sje@mv.mv.com)
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