[fitsbits] BINTABLE/TABLE column count limitation

[Forveille thierry]

  On 06/07/2012 06:42 PM, Mark Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Forveille thierry wrote:
>
>>    I concur with many that we first of all need a description of actual use
>> cases, with considerably more motivation than someone coming up
>> against error messages, possibly after doing something that's quite far
>> from optimal (e.g. using many scalar columns for a vector).
> As I tried to make clear in my initial message, this is not about
> using multiple scalar columns where a single array column would be
> more appropriate, it's about handling wide tables which do,
> increasingly, exist in astronomy.  The PhotoObjAll table from SDSS
> is 446 columns wide.
The SDSS PhotoObjAll table actually is a quite good example
of multiple scalar columns describing a vector/array reality:
most parameters are defined from every bandpass (x5),
the fit parameters have a multiplicity of a few, their covariance
matrix of a bit more, etc...