+1 For a related bug see: Bug 15690 - Unconstrained CardnumberLength preference conflicts with table column limit of 16 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15690 Marc Am 14.09.2016 um 14:58 schrieb Barton Chittenden:
+1
I've seen this become a pain point before; I definitely support extending it.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org <mailto:jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org>> wrote:
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 <mailto: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 > > -- > Indranil Das Gupta > L2C2 Technologies > > Phone : +91-98300-20971 > Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in > IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> > Twitter : indradg > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel <http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel> > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ <http://bugs.koha-community.org/> _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel <http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel> website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ <http://bugs.koha-community.org/>
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