On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:04:04 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn?= T Johansen <btj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > What does this mean and how can it be fixed? > > Reduce the number of columns in your SELECTs? > > This whiffs to me of excruciatingly bad schema design. How could you > possibly need upwards of a thousand columns in a query result? > IMHO reasonable column counts are O(10), not O(bignum). > > regards, tom lane > Well, I do agree but it is not my design and a "fix" in PostgreSQL would be quicker than fixing the design.... BTJ