Defend against JOINs having more than 32K columns altogether. We cannot
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:58:51 +0000 (01:58 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:58:51 +0000 (01:58 +0000)
commit08fb40d5a1628813239e034a37d7b2bac1e38157
tree9314a60702bd72c3bf0e98b4804726e5676b3f48
parent0de7cae63cfa5f4ab741f29b631c8ad8ffe0ce3e
Defend against JOINs having more than 32K columns altogether.  We cannot
currently support this because we must be able to build Vars referencing
join columns, and varattno is only 16 bits wide.  Perhaps this should be
improved in future, but considering that it never came up before, I'm not
sure the problem is worth much effort.  Per bug #4070 from Marcello
Ceschia.

The problem seems largely academic in 8.0 and 7.4, because they have
(different) O(N^2) performance issues with such wide joins, but
back-patch all the way anyway.
src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c
src/include/access/attnum.h