I've worked with several accounting packages, and I would find it very strange if someone could not adapt their procedures to live with 32 for the length of the account code.
Paul --- On Wed, 11/12/08, Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: String lengths in the SQL backend > To: "Gnucash list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 8:24 AM > For those on the gnucash user list, a new SQL backend is in > development. An > issue has arisen, and I need to get input from users, not > just developers. > > Rolf Leggewie has run into some problems with the SQL > backend > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560165) - he > wants to add another > SQL table to key off the account 'code' field. > However, the 'code' field is > varchar(2048) which is too big to be a primary key in > mysql. I responded that > earlier discussion on this mailing list (mainly/only by > Derek) had been that > strings should be unlimited, and since SQL requires *some* > limit, I chose > 2048. > > For those who don't know SQL, for a variable length > string (varchar), the > database engine will only allocate enough space to hold the > value, so allowing > 2048 and storing only 10 chars uses about the same disk > space as allowing 128 > and storing the same 10. The problem in this case is that > one user wants to > be able to index some more information by the account code, > but the fields used > as the index is too large. > > I'd have to look back, but I think Derek's reply > was the only one. I'd like > to open the topic again, because of Rolf's problem. > Can anyone think of a > reason that account code size limit cannot be reduced to a > smaller value (e.g. > 32)? Will anyone ever enter an account code longer than > that? > > Phil > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
