From: Richard Huxton <richardh@archonet.com>
To: "vijaykumar M" <m_vijaykumar@hotmail.com>,
	pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Why their is a limit in Postgresql (psql) Parameters..?
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:42:49 +0100
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On Monday 21 July 2003 11:29, vijaykumar M wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>     I'm using Postgresql v7.3.3. I have a small question ...
>
>     Why is that there is a maximum limit of 32 input parameters to the
> Postgresql function?
>       Whereas stored procedures in Oracle and SQL Server
> take more than 32 input arguments. So this puts extra burden on the
> middleware developer to handle this stiuation at the time of migrating
> existing databases in SQL Server or Oracle to Postgresql.

It used to be 16 and was increased to 32 fairly recently (hmm - 7.3.0 
according to the release notes). People used to tweak and recompile the 
source to increase from 16, so I suppose you could still do the same. Have a 
look in the mailing list archives, I seem to remember messages on this in the 
past.

The reason why it's not bigger is that there hasn't been enough people saying 
"I need more parameters".

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd