Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 17:58:22 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: postgres@kellerer.name, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Document the limit on the number of parameters
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 01:25:08PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-prepare.html
> Description:
> 
> The backend protocol limits the number of parameters that can be passed for
> a prepared statement to 32767 (2 byte signed integer).
> 
> As that is something that is independent of the client library, I think this
> should be documented in the user facing manual for the Postgres server
> somewhere. 
> 
> I did not find anything in the chapter about PREPARE
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-prepare.html or about the
> backend protocol:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/protocol.html nor on the FAQ
> page: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ

Uh, is this something people will care about?

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