Re: Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Alex Stapleton <alexs(at)advfn(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows
Date: 2005-11-08 17:44:25
Message-ID: 20051108174425.GB6385@wolff.to
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> >>>
> >>>Well this screams random arbitrary limit to me. Why does this limit
> >>>exist? What ever happened to the holy 0,1,infinity triumvirate?
> >>>
> >>
> >>I guess it eases implementation and there is no reason to go so high
> >>on columns either. The limit could even be lower w/o and hurts but
> >>1600 seems skyrocket high enough (read unlimited :-)

It is probably what fits in a single block.

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