column limit?

Started by Johnson, Shaunnover 23 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Johnson, Shaunn
SJohnson6@bcbsm.com

Howdy:

Trying to looking for this in the docs, but, can someone clue me
in for the direction for column limit? I'm trying to build
a table with, say, 50+ columns (all but 2 of them are integer) and
getting some error (the error itself is ambiguous as it refers to
"'").

Is there a limit as to how many columns a table can have?
If so, what is it (or, where is the docs that explains
that stuff) ?

Thanks!

-X

#2Robert Treat
xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
In reply to: Johnson, Shaunn (#1)
Re: column limit?

From http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-createtable.html

"A table cannot have more than 1600 columns."

Robert Treat

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On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 17:51, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:

Howdy:

Trying to looking for this in the docs, but, can someone clue me
in for the direction for column limit? I'm trying to build
a table with, say, 50+ columns (all but 2 of them are integer) and
getting some error (the error itself is ambiguous as it refers to
"'").

Is there a limit as to how many columns a table can have?
If so, what is it (or, where is the docs that explains
that stuff) ?

Thanks!

-X

#3Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Johnson, Shaunn (#1)
Re: column limit?

"Johnson, Shaunn" <SJohnson6@bcbsm.com> writes:

Trying to looking for this in the docs, but, can someone clue me
in for the direction for column limit? I'm trying to build
a table with, say, 50+ columns (all but 2 of them are integer) and
getting some error (the error itself is ambiguous as it refers to
"'").

As Robert pointed out, you are nowhere near any limit. This is probably
a simple syntax error, but I don't doubt that it's hard to find in such
a large command :-(.

There is a problem with the parser in releases through 7.2 (it's fixed
for 7.3) in that in some situations, "parse error near foo" messages
will quote only a part of a token, rather than the whole token. I
suspect that this message is trying to point at some string literal
('foo') in your command.

regards, tom lane