Bug #42050 Maximum constraint name lengths not documented
Submitted: 12 Jan 2009 14:14 Modified: 3 Apr 2009 15:08
Reporter: Karsten Wutzke Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S5 (Performance)
Version:all OS:Any
Assigned to: Paul DuBois CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: constraint, identifier, LENGTH, maximum, name

[12 Jan 2009 14:14] Karsten Wutzke
Description:
I'm referring to this post in the forums:

http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?10,241711,241711#msg-241711

This says it all.

How to repeat:
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Suggested fix:
Document constraint name maximum lengths.
[3 Apr 2009 15:08] Paul DuBois
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant products.

The max length is 64. See:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/identifiers.html