Re: update db doesnt work - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gregory Seidman
Subject Re: update db doesnt work
Date
Msg-id 20020527113002.A20746@gandhi.cs.brown.edu
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In response to Re: update db doesnt work  (Jani Averbach <jaa@cc.jyu.fi>)
Responses Re: update db doesnt work
Re: update db doesnt work
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Jani Averbach sez:
} On Mon, 27 May 2002, dirk heitmann wrote:
} > i have created a table with 1600 comlumns. Now i want
} > to update some columns with new values:
} > update db set col1=1 where col2=2;
} >
} > this generates the error-message:
} > heap_formtuple: numberOfAttributes of 1601 > 1600.
}
} --8<--
} Maximum number of columns in a table         1600
} --8<--
} http://www2.se.postgresql.org/users-lounge/limitations.html

Which, while accurate, fails to answer the answer the question. A column is
not being added. A table is not being created. Rows are being updated and
the system is complaining that there are too many columns. Why?

} BR, Jani
--Greg


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