back about '80, a compiler geek at su-ai asked on the arpanet lang list
whether an 8 or 12 char limit for variable names was appropriate.
david moon, cmu, sent an email to report a bug in the su-ai mailer which
was regurgitating mail from the '50s and '60s, but with current dates.
randy
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022, 16:44 Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> When you encounter one of
> the twits who creates ridiculously long package names,
> corner them and blabber about your vacation in Thailand,
> mentioning the official Thai (20 second to pronounce)
> capital city name frequently. Watch the
> I may up it to 100/150 but if anyone is aware of a package name for any linux
> distro that exceeds 100 characters that would be helpful to know. I only use
> a few different distros myself and wasn't expecting to hit this issue.
Hash tables for the long exceptions, as suggested by others.
On 6/9/22 18:16, Ben Koenig wrote:
Hi all,
I have a really random question/rant about package metadata across
different distros. Quick backstory.. For reasons best explained by
https://xkcd.com/2610/, I'm writing a series of scripts that ingest
package data into a set of SQL tables in mariadb.
On Fri, 10 Jun 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
I'd keep the name column text or equivalent. You can always use index or
compute name's sha1/256 hash column if you need to speed up searches/joins
over millions of rows.
Or, index that column.
Rich
Suse can also have long names.
I'd keep the name column text or equivalent. You can always use index or
compute name's sha1/256 hash column if you need to speed up searches/joins
over millions of rows.
Tomas
On Thu, Jun 9, 2022, 22:47 Ben Koenig wrote:
> --- Original Message ---
> On
On Fri, 10 Jun 2022, Ben Koenig wrote:
How high should I set the limit?
Ben,
I don't use mariadb but it's likely to have a data type such as 'text' or
'varchar', both of which have no defined limit. Using such a data type on
your package name removes the issue of the name's length. This data
