[Koha] SQL field lengths

[Chris Nighswonger]

2010/11/29 Paul <paul.a at aandc.org>

> First, are spaces allowed in the 10 character CCODE? Are there any other
> restrictions (numerics, underlines, hyphens, etc)?  I find nothing (easily)
> in the documentation. As a comparison, the LOC code allows 80 characters
> including (at least) spaces.
>
>
It appears that you can, at least, define a CCODE type with spaces. Whether
it works in practice or not I don't know.


>  For various historical reasons we have nearly two hundred "categories"
> spread across 468 spreadsheets - that would be a possible 100,000 "simple
> search and replace" operations ;={  and I've never had much success with
> Perl looking for entries in a specific column of a spreadsheet where
> obviously the "category name" could also appear in the title, keywords and
> reviews which we obviously do not want to modify.
>
>
We use Text::CSV in a number of places in Koha to work with comma delimited
files, and it works very nicely. I don't see why you should have any problem
munging up 468 spreadsheets using that module. But then, maybe I'm being
naive here. :-)


> So I'll probably end up attempting to modify the SQL parameter for field
> length (a task which, from past experience with Oracle, I am not looking
> forward to.)
>
>
This will probably break things at worst and at best is ill advised. It will
definitely result in complications during future upgrades should the core
code change in the future.

Custom code hacks (especially of this nature) are not recommended for the
sake of future sanity and happiness.

Kind Regards,
Chris
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