The first thing I naïvely thought is: currency codes are an ISO standard, and are always three characters long. Why would the relevant database field not have b

The first thing I naïvely thought is: currency codes are an ISO standard, and are always three characters long. Why would the relevant database field not have been created with that in mind? Of course, maybe it was, and it certainly wouldn't fix the bug itself if the database simply truncated the inserted string to fit (like some do).