On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Lee Hachadoorian <lee.hachadoorian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Interesting. Although your example of one, 100000-dimension array works, > five hundred 2-dimension arrays does not work. I can do the SELECT, but the > CREATE TABLE fails: > > ERROR: row is too big: size 9024, maximum size 8160 > SQL state: 54000 > > David has already hit the nail on the head in terms of this being a > "political" problem rather than a technology problem. I'm open to ideas, but > I realize there might be no other answer than "No one in their right mind > should do this." No, this is a technology problem. Toast pointers are 20 bytes per column, so with 500 columns that is 10000 bytes - which will not fit in one block. If you wish to fit this in then you should use a 2 dimensional array, which will then be just 1 column and your data will fit. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
