Is it possible to increase the length of PartRev.RevShortDesc?

We have an issue where the description of a part rev is exceeding the 30 characters allocated by PartRev.RevShortDesc. Since this is a built-in field I don’t think it’s possible, but I am also noticing that there is another field called PartRev.Description which is much larger. I created a query and it looks like under 3% of our part revisions actually use this, and I don’t see where the user can even see this field by default - the user is using Part Maintenance > Part > Revisions > Detail. It looks like the cases where this is used, the description is used to describe the reason for the Rev. It seems like any solution with a UD field would require a lot of customization and a lot of unknowns as we don’t know every place that might touch or use this field such as reports.

What would be the best practice in this case?

As far as I can tell, and as we do in our operation, you can update the revision description in the engineering workbench when you check out a revision.
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Ah, it’s the revision “comments” that is RevDescription, whereas “Description” is PartRev.RevShortDesc which is a bit of a mismatch in my opinion.

Is it possible to change the field size in the DB for PartRev.RevShortDesc?