Re: PostgreSQL Limits and lack of documentation about them.

On 2018-Oct-26, David Rowley 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/

This was removed in
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=commitdiff;h=66760d73bca6

Making the /about/ page leaner is a good objective IMO, considering the
target audience of that page (not us), but I wonder if the content
should have been moved elsewhere. It's still in the wiki:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_the_maximum_size_for_a_row.2C_a_table.2C_and_a_database.3F
but that doesn't seem great either.

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