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icon5.gif   length of fields, posted by Paul Harrington on Wed Feb 23 13:02:59 2005 
    icon2.gif   Re: length of fields, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Mar 2 15:00:04 2005 
       icon2.gif   Re: length of fields, posted by Paul Harrington on Thu Mar 3 10:21:21 2005 
          icon2.gif   Re: length of fields, posted by Paul Harrington on Tue Mar 8 13:16:14 2005 
             icon2.gif   Re: length of fields, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Mar 8 20:28:49 2005 
Message ID: 966     Entry time: Wed Mar 2 15:00:04 2005     In reply to: 957     Reply to this: 969
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
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Subject: Re: length of fields 
> When creating/updating entries in elog, excluding the main text field are 
> there any limits on the size of the other fields?

Yes, this is controlled by the variable NAME_LENGTH in elogd.c, which is
currently set to 1500 characters. You can try to increase this and recompile,
but at some point you will produce a stack overflow and elogd will crash. So
the current length is a compromise.

- Stefan
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