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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: 969     Entry time: Thu Mar 3 10:21:21 2005     In reply to: 966     Reply to this: 975
Icon: Reply  Author: Paul Harrington  Author Email: paul.harrington@oup.com 
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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

Thanks. Thats useful to know.

Paul
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