Hey Mark,
Yeah, I can't imagine an entity in a real project even with more than 100
columns. Its rare case.
But if you entities (rows/tuples) of some class (table) can contains variable
set of columns (properties) you can look at hstore contrib module.
2010/11/12 John R Pierce
<pierce@hogranch.com>On 11/11/10 9:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
"Mark Mitchell"<mmitchell@riccagroup.com> writes:
Is there are hard limit of 1600 that you cannot get around?
Yes.
Generally, wanting more than a few dozen columns is a good sign that you
need to rethink your schema design. What are you trying to accomplish
exactly?
indeed. I'd say a good read on 'data normalization' and the Third Normal Form would be in order.
relational databases are *not* spreadsheets (and, for that matter, spreadsheets make lousy relational databases)
if these 1600+ elements come from an ORM, you probably need to rethink your object model, as no sane object class should have that many members.
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// Dmitriy.