Max label length

[gw-vastdata]

Hi,

We're using slash and recently we've introduced some long labels which didn't pass the len(_) <= 29 requirement.

We've just arbitrarily raised the requirement to 42, but I'm curious why is this required?
Blame: https://github.com/getslash/slash/blame/develop/slash/core/fixtures/parameters.py#L194

[vmalloc]

This was a long time ago but IIRC the limitation was due to database performance limitations in Backslash, which originally intended labels to be for human consumption only (meaning they were optimized to be short) and we took the 32 character maximum and shortened to accommodate the possible ellipsis for truncated labels.

Of course a lot has happened since then and this limitation might no longer be relevant. @ayalash probably has a better memory than me about where this is coming from

[ayalash]

@vmalloc I don't remember the reason for it, as you said it was really long time ago :)