Re: BUG #18711: Attempting a connection with a database name longer than 63 characters now fails

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:50:18AM -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 04:36:07PM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > I'd vote for "leave it alone" or wait to see if we get more reports before
> > deciding.
> 
> Did your initial report originate from users or from just exploring the
> code?  If it's the latter, then AFAICT this thread is really the only
> feedback from the field we have to go on, and IMHO it'd be better to
> proceed with reverting.

I meant to say get more reports regarding the 17 behavior to decide between
reverting or "leave it alone".

Regarding the question, the report that lead to the initial discussion was coming
from a real case from an internal team. 562bee0fc1 did not fix it though but at
least provides a consistent behavior between ASCII and non-ASCII.

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
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