On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:46:02PM -0700, Tim Traver wrote:
> Is there any reason why I shouldn't increase the size of the allowable 
> user names in mysql to var(32) instead of the default var(16) ???
> 
> Couldn't really find much on it, but wanted to ask if anyone knows of 
> any troubles this may cause...

Yes, there are a number of places within the server that only expect the
username to be 16 characters, and will almost certainly break in the
face of longer usernames.

Jim Winstead
MySQL Inc.

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