[Koha-devel] Length of email columns

Owen Leonard oleonard at myacpl.org
Fri Feb 16 14:36:11 CET 2018


> 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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