Re: How many fields in a table are too many

From: "Jason Underdown" <jasonu(at)xmission(dot)com>
To: "MT" <m_tessier(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How many fields in a table are too many
Date: 2003-06-26 01:29:47
Message-ID: KEEBIBNJGFAENCFHMJPFKEDGCLAA.jasonu@xmission.com
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Generally speaking, no, not at all. Probably the question you should be
asking yourself is: "Is there a way I could move some of these fields into
other tables?" But, depending upon your application, putting your database
schema into some esoteric normal form may be overkill.

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> Hi,
>
> Just a quick question, not unrelated to my previous question,
> which I don't think will get answered. I have a table with 13
> fields. Is that too many fields for one table.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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