Am Friday, 15. August 2008 schrieb Thomas Finneid:
> First question is, what is the rationale behind having a limit on the
> table name?

Is is an implementation detail.  Fixed-length name fields are more efficient 
to process.  And when you have fixed-length fields you need to choose some 
reasonable limit to avoid wasting too much space.

> Secondly Any ideas on how to solve this problem? Is the name length
> limit configurable?

Yes, edit NAMEDATALEN in src/include/pg_config_manual.h and rebuild.

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