[DERBY-4034] Document database name and attribute length and character set limitations for network client

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 10.5.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 10.5.2.0, 10.6.1.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Urgency: Urgent
• Issue & fix info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Katherine Marsden
• Reporter: Katherine Marsden
• Created: 28/Jan/09 23:25
• Updated: 16/Jul/09 21:24
• Resolved: 13/Jul/09 18:38

Description

With network client, the database name and following attributes must be:
1) Limited to length of 255 bytes when converted to EBCDIC.
2) Limited to single byte characters that can be converted to EBCDIC encoding.

DERBY-728 proposes that we support UTF-8 encoding so that multibyte characters. After that is fixed the 255 byte limit (when converted to UTF-8) will still remain.