Re: State of Beta 2

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>
Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: State of Beta 2
Date: 2003-09-12 14:22:32
Message-ID: 200309121422.h8CEMWB14200@candle.pha.pa.us
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Manfred Koizar wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:24:25 -0700, Sean Chittenden
> <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> wrote:
> >Agreed, but if anyone has a table with close to 1600 columns in a
> >table...
>
> This 1600 column limit has nothing to do with block size. It is
> caused by the fact that a heap tuple header cannot be larger than 255
> bytes, so there is a limited number of bits in the null bitmap.

Are you sure. Then our max would be:

255 * 8 = 2040

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