[Koha-devel] Length of email columns

Michael Hafen michael.hafen at washk12.org
Fri Feb 16 19:02:28 CET 2018


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 at 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
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