Could it be that when the table is being created the PG is not adding the
number of SYSTEM columns to the number of user columns before saying "Hey
can't make the table you have too many columns!"???
Just a thought.
Terry Fielder
Network Engineer
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
terry@greatgulfhomes.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 12:29 PM
> To: gss+pg@cs.brown.edu
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] update db doesnt work
>
>
> Gregory Seidman <gss+pg@cs.brown.edu> writes:
> > Which, while accurate, fails to answer the answer the
> question. A column is
> > not being added. A table is not being created. Rows are
> being updated and
> > the system is complaining that there are too many columns. Why?
>
> Good question. How did you construct a table with 1601 columns? The
> system should not have let you do that.
>
> regards, tom lane
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