Thanks Bowen, good to know regarding performance issues. I am using a Java client and will go ahead and check for any interoperability issues.
Regards! On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 7:01 AM Bowen Song via dev <dev@cassandra.apache.org> wrote: > Hi Gaurav, > > I would be less worried about performance issues than interoperability > issues. Other tools/client libraries do not expect this, and may cause > them to behave unexpectedly (e.g. truncating/crashing/...). > > If you can, try get rid of common prefix/suffix, and use abbreviations > where possible. You shouldn't have thousands of tables (and yes, there's > performance issue with that), so the table name length limit really > shouldn't be an issue. > > Best, > Bowen > > On 22/02/2024 05:47, Gaurav Agarwal wrote: > > Hi team, > > > > Currently Cassandra has a table name length limit of 48 characters. If > > I understand correctly, it was made due to the fact that filename can > > not be more than 255 characters in windows. However, Linux supports up > > to 4096 bytes of file name. > > > > Given my Cassandra nodes are on Linux systems, can I increase the > > limit from 48 characters to 64 characters? Will there be any > > performance issues due to increasing the limit? > > > > Thanks > > Gaurav >
