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Why Is there a limit on the number of columns I can have, and if something bad happens from having too many, why isn't the limit much lower than 1600, which hop
by moxious 9y ago
Why Is there a limit on the number of columns I can have, and if something bad happens from having too many, why isn't the limit much lower than 1600, which hopefully most of us can agree is already way beyond absurd?
- petereisentraut 9y agoIt has to do with how the tuple header that stores the metadata is designed. See comments here: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/include/access/htup_details.h;h=dcfcffc5cb858ed6493e37bc2ac76338b896c7ae;hb=254bb39b720426f7a4616cb6b40f810c44b24b20 https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f...