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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
To: David Alan Nelson <D.A.Nelson@newcastle.ac.uk>
Cc: Postgres <postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc: Moonja Kim <Moonja.Kim@newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Field Names
Date: Mon, 09 May 94 17:02:58 -0700
Message-ID: <199405100002.RAA29456@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AA10691.9405051123@swinhoe.ncl.ac.uk>

"David Alan Nelson" <D.A.Nelson@newcastle.ac.uk> writes:
[16 character names]
> Query sent to backend is "retrieve (kk.all) "
> Error: Unexpected identfier in dump_data:
> It then crashes out from the monitor.

there were tons of places where the server did not correctly
handle 16-character names.  marc teitelbaum made an attempt 
to fix as many of these as possible for 4.2.
--
  Paul M. Aoki  |  CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB  |  aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
                |  Berkeley, CA 94720           |  ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki

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