[ome-devel] configuration limitation

[Nico Stuurman]

That is bug #460: http://bugs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/show_bug.cgi?id=460
I would change to type 'text' instead of varchar(2048).  Postgres 
handles that very well, and you won't run into problems after adding 
231 more importers;)

Best,

Nico



> I am currently trying to add my changes into the 2.4 release
> and have hit a limitation in the table "configuration".
>
> In order to add a new importer to the system, I  needed
> to add a line to src/perl2/OME/Install/CoreDatabaseTablesTask.pm
> that is the name of the new importer:  in my case
>     OME::ImportEngine::FischerExcelFormat
>
> However, installation will fail because the "value" column
> of the configuration table is now larger than the
> maximum (256  characters).
>
> I changed the "value" column to varchar(2048) in
> src/perl2/OME/Configuration/Variable.pm,
> but this seemed adhoc at best..
>
>
> I thought this should be reported as it may bite someone else soon.
>
>
>
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