Re: State of Beta 2

Manfred Koizar wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:24:25 -0700, Sean Chittenden
> <sean@chittenden.org> wrote:
> >Agreed, but if anyone has a table with close to 1600 columns in a
> >table...
>
> This 1600 column limit has nothing to do with block size.  It is
> caused by the fact that a heap tuple header cannot be larger than 255
> bytes, so there is a limited number of bits in the null bitmap.

Are you sure.  Then our max would be:

    255 * 8 = 2040

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