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    <p>+1</p>
    <p>For a related bug see:</p>
    <p>Bug 15690 - Unconstrained CardnumberLength preference conflicts
      with table column limit of 16<br>
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15690">https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15690</a><br>
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    Marc<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 14.09.2016 um 14:58 schrieb Barton
      Chittenden:<br>
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        <div>I've seen this become a pain point before; I definitely
          support extending it.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:25 AM,
          Jonathan Druart <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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          wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi
            Indranil,<br>
            <br>
            I do not think there is any valid reason, I guess 16 looked
            enough at<br>
            the time. If you want to extend it, feel free to submit a
            patch.<br>
            <br>
            Cheers,<br>
            Jonathan<br>
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                2016-09-14 0:15 GMT+01:00 Indranil Das Gupta <<a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:indradg@gmail.com">indradg@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
                > Hi all,<br>
                ><br>
                > I'm curious to know why is Koha's cardnumber field
                in borrowers table<br>
                > is historically set to VARCHAR(16) rather than say
                VARCHAR(255)?<br>
                > Especially since we now have the CardnumberLength
                syspref which we<br>
                > could use to drive the length rather than hardcode
                it down at 16.<br>
                ><br>
                > The background of this question: Schools in Nigeria
                use a<br>
                > matriculation number which is often larger than 16,
                as their<br>
                > cardnumber. Zeno did mention to me in a FB post
                that<br>
                > ExtendedPatronAttribute would equally do the job.<br>
                ><br>
                > Thoughts?<br>
                ><br>
                > -indranil<br>
                ><br>
                > --<br>
                > Indranil Das Gupta<br>
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