Shibboleth Developers

[Lukas Haemmerle <>]

Will Norris wrote:
> I was updating the wiki page for the StoredID DC[0] and noticed the 
> varchar columns have no size.  Was this deliberate?  Should we at least 
> be recommending sizes?  

I just added an example for MySQL on the wiki page before I read this 
post :)


> My initial thoughts:
>
>  localEntity varchar(1024) - per SAML2 spec, entity ID must be limited 
> to 1024 characters

At least for MySQL the max for varchar is 255. One then would have to 
use TEXT as type for this I assume.


>  peerEntity varchar(1024) - see localEntity

same here

>  principalName varchar(?)

255 should be more than fine

>  localId varchar(?)

same here

>  persistentId(36) - old hash algorithm produced 28 character string, new 
> algorithm creates 36 character guid

Sounds reasonable.


>  peerProvidedId(?)

No idea what could be reasonable for this.


Lukas

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