Yes I understand that this is "bad design" but what we are doing is storing each form field in a survey in its own column. For very long surveys we end up with thousands of elements. I know storing in an array is possible but it makes it so much easier to query the data set when each element is in its own field. I had lots of comments on why I should not do this and the possible alternatives and I thank everyone for their input but no one answered the question about compiling with a higher block size to get more columns. Can anyone answer that? -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:24 AM To: Mark Mitchell Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: More then 1600 columns? "Mark Mitchell" <mmitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Is there are hard limit of 1600 that you cannot get around? Yes. Generally, wanting more than a few dozen columns is a good sign that you need to rethink your schema design. What are you trying to accomplish exactly? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
