Re: More then 1600 columns?

"Mark Mitchell" <mmitchell(at)riccagroup(dot)com> writes:
> I know storing in an array is possible but it makes it so much easier to query the data set when each element is in its own field. I had lots of comments on why I should not do this and the possible alternatives and I thank everyone for their input but no one answered the question about compiling with a higher block size to get more columns. Can anyone answer that?

Yes, I did answer it: there is no such compilation option.

If you were willing to run a very nonstandard version of Postgres, you
could try widening t_hoff (see src/include/access/htup.h) but there is
nobody who can tell you what the fallout from that might be. One big
concern that I would have is the likelihood of O(N^2) behavior on very
long query targetlists.

On the whole I think you'd be a lot better off looking into hstore,
especially the improved 9.0 version.

regards, tom lane