The 7.4 release increased the maximum length for column and table 
identifiers to 64 characters.   Are there any plans to increase the 
maximum length out to the SQL spec of 128 characters?   I remembered 
some performance penalties for the longer name lengths for hash joins 
but I don't know if any of the many improvements for the 8.0 release 
have change or reduced the penalties for such identifiers.

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:16:46 -0500
Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com>
Maximum identifier lengths
Thomas Swan wrote:
> The 7.4 release increased the maximum length for column and table 
> identifiers to 64 characters.   Are there any plans to increase the 
> maximum length out to the SQL spec of 128 characters?   I remembered 
> some performance penalties for the longer name lengths for hash joins 
> but I don't know if any of the many improvements for the 8.0 release 
> have change or reduced the penalties for such identifiers.

I have heard no discussion of increasing it, certainly not for 8.0, and
I don't think we have changed anything that would affect the performance
penalty.

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Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:34:10 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: Maximum identifier lengths