Re: Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alex Stapleton
Subject Re: Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows
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Msg-id 9B30BBB5-ABC1-4EE1-A494-DE0CE9CCA62B@advfn.com
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In response to Re: Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows  (Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>)
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On 8 Nov 2005, at 12:50, Tino Wildenhain wrote:

> Evandro's mailing lists (Please, don't send personal messages to
> this address) schrieb:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>  I would like to know if it is possible to have more than 1600
>> columns on windows without recompiling postgres.
>>
>>
> I would like to know who on earth needs 1600 columns and even beyond?
> Hint: you can have practically unlimited rows in your n:m table :-)
>

Well this screams random arbitrary limit to me. Why does this limit
exist? What ever happened to the holy 0,1,infinity triumvirate?

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