Flavio Henrique Araque Gurgel <fha...@gmail.com> writes:
> It seems that naming prepared statements is limited to 63 characters as per
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS
Yeah, just like every other SQL identifier in Postgres...
> The dangerous situation is that PostgreSQL seems to ignore rigthmost
> overflowed characters silently.
It's hardly silent:
regression=# prepare
foo1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 as
select 1;
NOTICE: identifier
"foo1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
will be truncated to
"foo123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
PREPARE
> Wouldn't it be good to include that information on the prepared statement
> doc page?
You could as well argue that every single page that describes creating
any sort of object ought to repeat this information. I doubt that people
would find that to be an improvement.
regards, tom lane
