On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:41, 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?

I agree. I think 32 is lower than general uses of string but 128 or
256 are ok for me.

> 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.
>
> 
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