+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
+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> 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>:
> 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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