On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 06:52 -0800, Jay wrote: > A stupid question: > > Why introduce more code, one more thing to test, > and possibly bugs? Is there a problem that needs fixing? >
There is code in SQLite that has to deal with the general case of tables with millions or billions of columns. That code can be simplified (and made faster) if we know that the maximum number of columns is some reasonable limit, such as 2000.