Hello,
I noticed that CheckAttributeNamesTypes() prevents to create a table that has
more than MaxHeapAttributeNumber (1600) columns, for foreign-table also.
IIUC, this magic number comes from length of the null-bitmap can be covered
with t_hoff in HeapTupleHeaderData.
For heap-tables, it seems to me a reasonable restriction to prevent overrun of
null-bitmap. On the other hand, do we have proper reason to apply same
restrictions on foreign-tables also?
Foreign-tables have their own unique internal data structures instead of
the PostgreSQL's heap-table, and some of foreign-data can have thousands
attributes in their structured data.
I think that MaxHeapAttributeNumber is a senseless restriction for foreign-
tables. How about your opinions?
Best regards,
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HeteroDB, Inc / The PG-Strom Project
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@heterodb.com>