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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>
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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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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>
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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>
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