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The PostgreSQL limitations section of the documents mentioned the limit on the number of columns that can exist in a table. Users might be surprised to find that there's also a limit on the number of columns that can exist in a targetlist. Users may experience restrictions which surprise them if they happened to select a large number of columns from several tables with many columns. Here we document that there is a limitation on this and mention what that limit actually is. Wording proposal by Alvaro Herrera Reported-by: Vladimir Sitnikov Author: Dave Crammer Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB=Je-E18aTYpNqje4mT0iEADpeGLSzwUvo3H9kRRuDdsNo4aQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 12, where the limitations section was added
PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/ See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.