In my case I import information on students for school libraries into Koha, and there are often multiple email addresses in one field.

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 6:36 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
> According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/574698 the maximum length of an
> email address is 254 characters, so VARCHAR(255) should be enough.
> Do you know if there is any reason why we use mostly TEXT and MEDIUMTEXT
> for these columns ?

Is there ever a situation where we want to allow multiple email
addresses in one field? I don't know if that's even possible in Koha,
but I seem to recall discussion of it in the past.

 -- Owen



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Michael Hafen
Washington County School District Technology Department
Systems Analyst