On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:28 PM Gavin Flower <gavinflo...@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:
The convention here is to bottom post, or to intersperse comments, like > in all the replies to you. > > So it would be appreciated if you did that, rather than top post as you > have been doing. > > Thanks for the advice. I will follow the convention. > I strongly suspect that: > > (1) making pg handle more than 1600 columns, would be way more > complicated than you can imagine > > (2) suich a change would be unlikely to be accepted into the main > line, which would mean you'd have to reapply your patch for every > new version of pg you wanted to use! > > Yes. Our 1st attempt showed us (1). Regarding to (2), We are good by adding a patch and recompile a patched version for our server databases. But we are open on helping to add thousands of columns support as a compile-time parameter if there are other people interested. Something like --with_thousands_of_columns_support feature We could add a node to the build farm to test this functionality on Ubuntu. And helping and writing tests. Pablo > > Cheers, > Gavin > >
