>"Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com> writes: >>> Yeah, but populating it would not (unless many of the columns were >>> NULL).
>> Ok, but then should the documentation be more precise? It seems a bit odd to let users create such a table without at least a warning.
>Given the impact of NULLs, and the fact that usually tables have some >variable-width columns, I doubt that a creation-time warning could be >accurate enough to be useful.
I am not speaking about a warning at creation time, but rather a warning in the docs. Something like: Although a table with e.g. 1600 bigint columns can be created, creating a tuple of more than 8160 bytes will fail.