Comment 3 for bug 1103907

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Antonio Terceiro (terceiro) wrote : Re: [Bug 1103907] Re: Test result failed to display when test_id longer than 64 bytes

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 07:41:02PM -0000, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> Senthil Kumaran S <email address hidden> writes:
>
> > What was the test-id you were trying with? How big you want the test-id
> > to be? 128 ?
>
> We only have limits because Django requires them and AIUI Django only
> requires them because of how MySQL works and as we use postgres, we
> should just lift the limit to something silly like 1024.
>
> Unless there is a reason to impose a limit on test_id length? I'd
> rather not, in general.

Very long test_id values, specially if they don't have spaces in
between, might cause weird problems with the UI. But I'd say let's
increase the limit and fix the UI if needed.

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Antonio Terceiro
Software Engineer - Linaro
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