Re: how to add more than 1600 columns in a table?

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: how to add more than 1600 columns in a table?
Date: 2019-04-24 20:22:52
Message-ID: 1bc29b08-1905-8c0e-5301-023ff134051e@gmail.com
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On 4/24/19 3:17 PM, pabloa98 wrote:
> Hello
>
> Sadly today we hit the 1600 columns limit of Postgresql 11.
>
> How could we add more columns?
>
> Note: Tables are OK. We truly have 2400 columns now. Each column
> represents a value in a matrix.
>
> We have millions of rows so I would prefer not to transpose each row to
> (x, y, column_value) triplets because it will make all our code more
> difficult of what it is.
>
> Any help, very appreciated.

Is a relational database the proper tool for the job?

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