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Re: [Bug 11351] New: [IndexedDB] Should we have a maximum key size (or something like that)?

From: Shawn Wilsher <sdwilsh@mozilla.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:03:08 -0800
Message-ID: <4D4F1A9C.7070000@mozilla.com>
To: Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org>
CC: Pablo Castro <Pablo.Castro@microsoft.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 2/6/2011 12:42 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
> My current thinking is that we should have some relatively large
> limit....maybe on the order of 64k?  It seems like it'd be very difficult to
> hit such a limit with any sort of legitimate use case, and the chances of
> some subtle data-dependent error would be much less.  But a 1GB key is just
> not going to work well in any implementation (if it doesn't simply oom the
> process!).  So despite what I said earlier, I guess I think we should have
> some limit...but keep it an order of magnitude or two larger than what we
> expect any legitimate usage to hit just to keep the system as flexible as
> possible.
>
> Does that sound reasonable to people?
Are we thinking about making this a MUST requirement, or a SHOULD?  I'm 
hesitant to spec an exact size as a MUST given how technology has a way 
of changing in unexpected ways that makes old constraints obsolete.  But 
then, I may just be overly concerned about this too.

Cheers,

Shawn


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