[Koha] Barcode length

[Chris Cormack]

* Pedro Amorim (pjamorim91 at gmail.com) wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I have a question regarding barcode length in Koha.
>I'm importing a new biblio database and some barcodes have length of 26 or
>28 and so on.
>
>Koha's database schema limits the barcode field in the items table to
>varchar(20).
>
>My question is:
>Is it okay to manually alter this field length? As so:
>
>*ALTER TABLE items MODIFY barcode VARCHAR(40);*

You need to modify the deleteditems table to match too
>
>What sort of problems can this cause in the future? Do I have to apply this
>change everytime I update Koha to a newer version?

You shouldn't only if you drop and recreate your database.

But please do this on a test system first, before you try it in 
production

Chris
>
>Thanks a bunch,
>
>Pedro Amorim
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