[Spread-users] max number of groups and max length of group name

Taj Khattra taj.khattra at pobox.com
Thu Mar 4 13:05:32 EST 2004


On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:15:37AM -0700, Jim Vickroy wrote:
> (2) Can the maximum length of a group name be increased beyond the
> 32-character limit?

another option to consider if you have long group names is
to use a hash (e.g. md5) of the actual group name as the
Spread group name and, if necessary, have your application
maintain a mapping between the two sets of names.

this allows arbitrarily long group names without having to
modify MAX_GROUP_NAME (otoh, you'll have to maintain the
mapping if you need it)

-taj




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