[Koha-devel] Curiosity why is cardnumber field size 16?

[Jonathan Druart]

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 at 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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