Re: Document the limit on the number of parameters

Greetings,

* Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)us) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 01:25:08PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> >
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-prepare.html
> > Description:
> >
> > The backend protocol limits the number of parameters that can be passed for
> > a prepared statement to 32767 (2 byte signed integer).
> >
> > As that is something that is independent of the client library, I think this
> > should be documented in the user facing manual for the Postgres server
> > somewhere.
> >
> > I did not find anything in the chapter about PREPARE
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-prepare.html or about the
> > backend protocol:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/protocol.html nor on the FAQ
> > page: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ
>
> Uh, is this something people will care about?

Seems like a limitation in the backend protocol should probably be
documented in the backend protocol section of the docs..

Thanks!

Stephen