Hello,

I noticed that the citekey gets truncated if they are too long. In our bibtex file, we have some citekeys longer than the 16 characters assigned to that field. Is there a reason why this is limited? Would it be possible to change it to varchar(255)? Would a re-import then get the full citekey in?

Many thanks
Chris

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macko commented

I agree - this was something that surprised me very much. I have lots of longer keys in my bib database, like Bearman-and-Meanstrow-2004, and they don't fit. Is there any rationale for limiting key length (so much)?

rjerome’s picture

rjerome commented

No, there is no rational what so ever :-) it was just an arbitrary size choice which, apparently was not so good.

I'll change it.

Ron.

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rjerome commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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