[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1008: Too many columns in select crashes pgsql2shp

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#1008: Too many columns in select crashes pgsql2shp
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 Reporter:  joshjordan     |       Owner:  mcayland     
     Type:  defect         |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium         |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
Component:  loader/dumper  |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:  pgsql2shp      |  
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Comment(by mcayland):

 I think you may have misread the patch. The patch does not add a
 restriction of 254 fields, it simply sums the length of all the input
 fieldnames, then adds 1024 characters extra to cover any extra query
 prefix/suffix when allocating the main query string.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/1008#comment:8>
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