Re: Max. size of User.email is 75 chars

2007-08-31 Thread Gary Wilson
SmileyChris wrote: > On Aug 30, 11:47 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 19:01 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: >>> On 8/30/07, SmileyChris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It has always made me wonder why it isn't even overridable. Is there a design

Re: Max. size of User.email is 75 chars

2007-08-31 Thread Tai Lee
It should probably be 320, and if there are any databases that don't support a field that long, it should be reduced to accomodate those databases (only), rather than holding everything back for the lowest common denominator? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received thi

Re: Max. size of User.email is 75 chars

2007-08-30 Thread SmileyChris
On Aug 30, 11:47 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 19:01 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > On 8/30/07, SmileyChris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It has always made me wonder why it isn't even overridable. Is there a > > > design decision behind this

Re: Max. size of User.email is 75 chars

2007-08-30 Thread Clint Ecker
Just as a data point, I've only run into this issue exactly one time. The guy had an 80-character email address. It was kind of a pain to have to override everything everywhere in my production app, but I only had to do it once, so... it's not too high on my list of things that have ever annoyed

Re: Max. size of User.email is 75 chars

2007-08-30 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 19:01 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On 8/30/07, SmileyChris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It has always made me wonder why it isn't even overridable. Is there a > > design decision behind this or has it just never been asked? > > I don't see why it needs to be con

Re: Max. size of User.email is 75 chars

2007-08-30 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 8/30/07, SmileyChris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It has always made me wonder why it isn't even overridable. Is there a > design decision behind this or has it just never been asked? I don't see why it needs to be configurable. Email have a fixed finite maximum length - it isn't something t

Re: Max. size of User.email is 75 chars

2007-08-30 Thread SmileyChris
It has always made me wonder why it isn't even overridable. Is there a design decision behind this or has it just never been asked? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post

Max. size of User.email is 75 chars

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Melvyn
Hi all, I've a question, why max. size of User.email field is set to 75 characters, if RFC 2821 limits local part to 64 characters and domain to 255. With '@' it is together 320 chars. Should not be this field extended? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me