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Probably not, but this is something that would have taken all of ten seconds to get right. And the size and performance impact is multiplied at every tier of their application.

It’s also not just the size itself. Despite being fixed-size in practice, these are variable-sized strings in application code which now means gajillions of pointless allocations and indirection for everything. There are a ton of knock-on performance consequences here, all on the most heavily-used columns in your data model.

Worst of all should they actually succeed, this is going to be absolutely excruciating to fix.