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General Bug Report: create table with long tablename with unique index having long fieldname fails

Unprivileged user <nobody> — 1999-02-10T23:22:12Z

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Your name		: Al Dev
Your email address	: alavoor@yahoo.com

Category		: runtime: back-end: SQL
Severity		: critical

Summary: create table with long tablename with unique index having long fieldname fails

System Configuration
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  Operating System   : Redhat5.2 Linux 2.0.36

  PostgreSQL version : 6.4.2

  Compiler used      : gcc 2.7

Hardware:
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Versions of other tools:
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gmake, flex

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Problem Description:
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I am creating a table having name more than 30 chars
and a unique index on a field whose name is also more than
30 chars. The create table statement fails and gives error -

hos=> create table longtablename (DATE_TIME_STAMP datetime not null,
hos-> UNIQUE (DATE_TIME_STAMP));
ERROR:  parser: unable to construct implicit index for table longtablename; name too long
hos=> \q


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Test Case:
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$ psql mydatabase
hos=> create table longtablename (DATE_TIME_STAMP datetime not null,
hos-> UNIQUE (DATE_TIME_STAMP));
ERROR:  parser: unable to construct implicit index for table longtablename; name too long
hos=> \q


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Solution:
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