Re: Document the limit on the number of parameters

Greetings Tom,

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > * Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)us) wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 01:25:08PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> >>> The backend protocol limits the number of parameters that can be passed for
> >>> a prepared statement to 32767 (2 byte signed integer).
>
> >> Uh, is this something people will care about?
>
> > Seems like a limitation in the backend protocol should probably be
> > documented in the backend protocol section of the docs..
>
> It is: the definition of the Bind message format says that the parameter
> count is an int16.
>
> The question is whether this deserves to be cross-referenced from
> elsewhere. I agree with Bruce that it seems unlikely to be helpful.

Ah, I read the original poster as saying that it wasn't in the protocol
docs. If it's there already then I agree, that's sufficient.

Thanks!

Stephen