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<p>it would be super to just increase the tagvalue length in the database to something like varchar(2000), bump the API minor version, and move on</p>
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<p>That will for sure not work. There are lots of downstream data processors, and you need to look at this change end-to-end - starting with osmosis for the replication, tools like osmium that have string lengths restrictions and special size optimizations in place, many different editors assuming certain size limits, ...</p>

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