Re: PostgreSQL Limits and lack of documentation about them. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Narayanan V
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Limits and lack of documentation about them.
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In response to PostgreSQL Limits and lack of documentation about them.  (David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>)
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+1 for inclusion in docs.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 4:00 AM David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
For a long time, we documented our table size, max columns, max column
width limits, etc. in https://www.postgresql.org/about/ , but that
information seems to have now been removed. The last version I can
find with the information present is back in April this year. Here's a
link to what we had:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180413232613/https://www.postgresql.org/about/

I think it's a bit strange that we don't have this information fairly
early on in the official documentation.  I only see a mention of the
1600 column limit in the create table docs. Nothing central and don't
see mention of 32 TB table size limit.

I don't have a patch, but I propose we include this information in the
docs, perhaps on a new page in the preface part of the documents.

Does anyone else have any thoughts about this?

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