[development] 'name' column length in variables

[Bèr Kessels]

Hi,

This is more a policy thing then a bug, IMO.

Drupal has some columns harcoded in length, most notably the 'node.type' 
column and the 'variable.name' colmn. 

I ran into a problem today again, with a contrib breaking because it made its 
variables like 
variable_get('usernodes_foo_' . $type) //where $type is the node type name.
You get it, that can grow very long. Drupal exploded there completely, because 
MySQL choked on already existing types. 

There aer loads of ways around this: use shorter node types in my (cck) 
configuration,. Use shorter names that prepend the $type etcetc. 
But I am sure that a patch will not fix this. I mean, we can make the 'name' 
column longer, but there is a limit, we will hit at some time again. 
Making a field longer is IMO only patching the error, not the cause of the 
error.

Any good ideas for this? Should we start on a unique_name($string, $length) 
function? A function that will create unique names?

Bèr
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