Doc: document libpq's restriction to INT_MAX rows in a PGresult.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 1e6c3626063571443a828e5fd2e59d9d8b9f0e91
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2017-08-29T19:38:40Z
Releases: 9.3.20
Doc: document libpq's restriction to INT_MAX rows in a PGresult.

As long as PQntuples, PQgetvalue, etc, use "int" for row numbers, we're
pretty much stuck with this limitation.  The documentation formerly stated
that the result of PQntuples "might overflow on 32-bit operating systems",
which is just nonsense: that's not where the overflow would happen, and
if you did reach an overflow it would not be on a 32-bit machine, because
you'd have OOM'd long since.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+FnnTxyLWyjY1goewmJNxC==HQCCF4fKkoCTa9qR36oRAHDPw@mail.gmail.com

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