When is a function name too long?

Question

I try to be rather descriptive with my function names, where possible. This occasionally results in function names in the twenty to thirty character range such as \"GetActionFr

Answer 1

Sometimes the 30-character limit in many contexts in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL felt like a terrible restriction, but on reflection it has caused us many times to think hard about how to name things so that they are quickly understood by someone reading the code later.

If we couldn't adequately describe the purpose of a table, view, function, procedure, package, etc. using 30 characters without using excessive abbreviation, it just needed a bit more thought, and perhaps an additional layer of abstraction to group related things together.