Re: [GENERAL] Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows

Yes it is exactly that. I will follow you advice and create a abstraction layer for the data access that will return the sparse dataset using the standard dataset as input.   There is just one thing I disagree you said it that the performance is not good, right. However, it is practical! Nothing is

Re: [GENERAL] Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows

; == Evandro's mailing lists (Please, don't send personal messages to this address) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:[I would have replied to your personal address, but I'm not aboutto copy it from a footer.]Evandro's> I'm doing a PhD in data mining and I need more than 160

Re: [GENERAL] Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows

I'm doing a PhD in data mining and I need more than 1600 columns. I got an error message saying that I can not use more than 1600 columns.   It is happening because I have to change categorical values to binary creating new columns. Do you know if oracle can handle it?      -- Evandro M Leite Jr. P

[GENERAL] Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows

Hi guys,   I would like to know if it is possible to have more than 1600 columns on windows without recompiling postgres.   Regards -Evandro-- Evandro M Leite JrPhD Student & Software developerUniversity of Southampton, UKPersonal website: http://evandro.orgAcademic website: http://www.soton.ac.uk

[GENERAL] NTFS partition autodetection during instalation

Dear hackers   I want to embed postgres into a software installation. I will use silent install, how do I detect which partition is NTFS so I can tell the installer to use that partition?   Many thanks -Evandro-- Evandro M Leite JrPhD Student & Software developer University of Southampton, UKPerso