Re: sorting table columns

Excerpts from Simon Riggs's message of mié dic 21 15:53:20 -0300 2011:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> > This one I'm not sure about at all:
> >
> >> * "very large number of columns" for statistical data sets where we
> >> automatically vertically partition the heap when faced with large
> >> numbers of column definitions
>
> We currently have pg_attribute.attnum as an int2, so we can store up
> to 32768 columns without changing that size, as long as we have some
> place to put the data.

Hm, right.

> Was there something you're working on likely to preventing >240 cols?

No, not at all.

> Just worth documenting what you see at this stage.

I'll keep my eyes open :-)

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