Increasing Character limit of text fields when using JEditor

Andrea Hakim

Using JIRA Server

JEditor allows for complex html code to be stored in text fields.  However, users are attempting to paste/create text that is greater than 32K characters.  I realize the character limit can be changed, my question is SHOULD it be changed?  What are the performance implications?  Upgrade concerns?

 

 

Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]

The character limit is admin configurable, so I would be surprised if a feature like that went away some day.  You may need to adjust the table constraints on the database if you make the size too large.  We hit this constraint pretty regularly when we are migrating data from other systems, so it is customary in many other issue trackers to allow large text blobs by default.  

I've not seen any issues with raising the limit.  It allows you to store more stuff in the database, so there could potentially be a concern with database storage filling up. I haven't seen any performance data indicating that raising the constraint would create or exacerbate performance issues.  I hope that helps