These are always stored as varchar therefore it should not affect space. It would be nice to make an experiment and check if it does.
Massimo On Aug 26, 8:41 am, villas <villa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I suppose that upload and password fields may be special cases. > > However, it seems to me that 512 default is way too big for normal > string fields. Why so big? Have space considerations become > irrelevant? > > In my apps 90% of strings are less than 128. As field sizes can > always be increased, why not 128 or even 256 for now and simply > increase when necessary? > > On Aug 25, 5:53 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > I have a radical proposal of changing the default length of string, > > upload, password fields to 512. This will cause a migration in all > > existing apps. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
