[fitsbits] BINTABLE/TABLE column count limitation

Lucio Chiappetti lucio at lambrate.inaf.it
Wed Jun 6 12:55:58 EDT 2012


On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Arnold Rots wrote:

> implement joins by putting the tables from the different sources each in 
> a separate HDU including an index, following an HDU that provides the 
> join through cross-index references.

I guess that they want to EXPORT the result of a join done inside some 
other database tool (be it an user-chosen join, or a pre-canned join, like 
e.g. an SQL VIEW) ... so it could be simpler ... all extensions will have 
the same number of rows, and just be juxtaposed (like Unix "paste")




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