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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Document the limit on the number of parameters
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 22:59:04 -0400
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Stephen Frost <[email protected]> writes:
> * Bruce Momjian ([email protected]) wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 01:25:08PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
>>> The backend protocol limits the number of parameters that can be passed for
>>> a prepared statement to 32767 (2 byte signed integer).

>> Uh, is this something people will care about?

> Seems like a limitation in the backend protocol should probably be
> documented in the backend protocol section of the docs..

It is: the definition of the Bind message format says that the parameter
count is an int16.

The question is whether this deserves to be cross-referenced from
elsewhere.  I agree with Bruce that it seems unlikely to be helpful.

			regards, tom lane

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