From 9af1862f84417fb2e39ecce375b44ae620e2b107 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joas Schilling Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 16:03:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document the string length issue Signed-off-by: Joas Schilling --- developer_manual/basics/storage/database.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/developer_manual/basics/storage/database.rst b/developer_manual/basics/storage/database.rst index 7cad08d56..4d9a34a10 100644 --- a/developer_manual/basics/storage/database.rst +++ b/developer_manual/basics/storage/database.rst @@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ When Oracle (``oci``) is supported (also when you don't list any databases), Nex * Foreign key names can not be longer than 30 characters * Sequence names can not be longer than 30 characters * String columns can not be NotNull and have an empty string as default value when being added in a later migration +* String columns can not have a length longer than 4.000 characters, use text instead * Boolean columns can not be NotNull Additionally we assume that Oracle support means you are interested in scaling and therefor check additional restrictions of other databases in clustered setups: