WordPress Post Title Maximum Character Lenght

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I have a WordPress based application which has to accommodate very long post titles. Do I understand correctly that the WP post title is limited by the actual VARCHAR column type (65,535 bytes for MySQL after 5.0.3) and such long titles will not affect the performance?

I just made some preliminary tests and it seems that long titles are not an issue, does anyone know any adverse effects ?

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(note: please note this is not a typical blog site, the WP is used as a custom CMS in this case)

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  1. I guess I am going to answer my own question unless someone proves me wrong.

    Since the version 3.0 there is no limit in the actual post title
    character length other that the actual MySql limitation for the
    “varchar” field. However, if pretty permalinks are used
    (i.e.:/%category%/%postname%/) then it would be advisable to clean up
    the possible lengthy url.