Re: PostgreSQL Limits and lack of documentation about them.

From: Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Limits and lack of documentation about them.
Date: 2018-10-25 22:40:29
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 9:30 AM David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)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.
>

I also try to find such limits of PostgreSQL, but I couldn't find it.
+1 to add them to docs.

Regards,
Haribabu Kommi
Fujitsu Australia

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