What is the maximum number of characters you can add to the Description field?

[Donna Macauley]

What is the maximum number of characters you can add to the Description field?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's limited by the size of the field it gets stored in in your database.

Last time I looked, I found a doc on Postgres that said a text field was limited to 1Gb, so that's the most you can put in a Description field if you're on Postgres.

I think a more useful answer is probably just "a lot more than you would ever need to add to a description field"

[Donna Macauley]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- Thanks for the info. I have a user importing issues using API and they want to know when/where to truncate the text for the Description field. 

[Donna Macauley]

System > General Configuration > "jira.text.field.character.limit" is set to 32767. What are the implications of changing this to 0 (unlimited)? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not a lot, other than you'll be allowed to put in enough text that a human will not find it useful and the issues you put it in may be slower to render, edit, and index.