[1020] in Moira
moira field lengths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Sun Nov 10 17:00:28 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 17:00:17 -0500 (EST)
From: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
To: moiradev@MIT.EDU, moira-admin@MIT.EDU, accounts@MIT.EDU
It occurred to me that the moira server switchover would be a really
good time to make any changes in to moira database field lengths that
we wanted, since that's something which is really annoying to try to
do on a running server, but wouldn't be very difficult to fit in as
part of the switchover.
So, are there any fields that people think are too short now and ought
to be lengthened?
Also, a poll: currently, moira silently truncates any arguments that
are too long to fit into the database. It would be trivial to change
this to make it return an error message instead. (The error number
[MR_ARG_LEN] is already defined, but it's only returned in certain
esoteric circumstances.) Do people think that would be a Good Thing or
a Bad Thing? (Or good in some cases, but bad in others.) This would be
something that would happen sometime after the switchover if it did
happen.
-- Dan
