On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, J. 'FIK' Brand wrote:
> I'm in the process of converting a database from MS to Postgres. In
> the database there is a table that as fieldnames that are longer that
> 32 characters. I can't change the client software.
>
> The problem is that Postgres does't support fieldnames that are long,
> is it possible to compile Postgres with fieldnames that can be 64
> characters ??
I believe if you change NAMEDATALEN (postgres_ext.h) you can change
the maximum length. I think you may need to initdb with the new settings.