7.2.3: tuple is too big (max 8136)

I got this error on older versions and was told to
upgrade. Unfortunately I run into the very same error with 7.2.3.

I have a table with 1600 cols (for testing) and insert one row into
it which results in this error:

$ psql -U peter -f /tmp/t
Password:
psql:/tmp/t:1: ERROR: Tuple is too big: size 19232, max size 8136

where /tmp/t is like:

insert into bigtable values ('testtest','testtest','testtest','testtest','testtest','testtest','testtest','testtest','testtest','testtest','testtest' .... and so on

I tried the same with a perl-program but as expected its exactely the same error.

I searched my whole systems for old libraries from a previous version
but I'm quite sure that my upgrade was quite a clean and successful
one...

thnx,
peter

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