Hi Indranil, I do not think there is any valid reason, I guess 16 looked enough at the time. If you want to extend it, feel free to submit a patch. Cheers, Jonathan 2016-09-14 0:15 GMT+01:00 Indranil Das Gupta <indradg@gmail.com>:
Hi all,
I'm curious to know why is Koha's cardnumber field in borrowers table is historically set to VARCHAR(16) rather than say VARCHAR(255)? Especially since we now have the CardnumberLength syspref which we could use to drive the length rather than hardcode it down at 16.
The background of this question: Schools in Nigeria use a matriculation number which is often larger than 16, as their cardnumber. Zeno did mention to me in a FB post that ExtendedPatronAttribute would equally do the job.
Thoughts?
-indranil
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