Max lenght of primary key ??

From: Bas Ven <ven_at_ats.nld.alcatel.nl>
Date: 1997/06/23
Message-ID: <33AE3922.12CE@ats.nld.alcatel.nl>#1/1

I was trying to create the following simple table:

CREATE TABLE physicalLink_table
(

neId     VARCHAR2(255),
elmId    VARCHAR2(255),	  	
portId   VARCHAR2(255),	  	
neB      VARCHAR2(255),
elmB     VARCHAR2(255),
portB    VARCHAR2(255),

CONSTRAINT pk_pl PRIMARY KEY ( neId, elmId, portId ) )
TABLESPACE userdata
STORAGE ( INITIAL 12K NEXT 12K ); and Oracle gives me the following error:

CREATE TABLE physicalLink_table
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01450: maximum key length exceeded

In the documentation I could only find the restriction that the primary key can be made up out of a maximum of 16 columns. I could not find anything about the maximum size of the primary key. Can anyone shed some light on this?
(by the way: server version 7.1.4)

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