On 11/11/10 9:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Mark Mitchell"<mmitchell@riccagroup.com> writes:
>> Is there are hard limit of 1600 that you cannot get around?
> Yes.
>
> Generally, wanting more than a few dozen columns is a good sign that you
> need to rethink your schema design. What are you trying to accomplish
> exactly?
>
indeed. I'd say a good read on 'data normalization' and the Third
Normal Form would be in order.
relational databases are *not* spreadsheets (and, for that matter,
spreadsheets make lousy relational databases)
if these 1600+ elements come from an ORM, you probably need to rethink
your object model, as no sane object class should have that many members.
