Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Andrew Gierth wrote:
>>> I have a patch almost done that adds some obvious but currently
>>> missing functionality to hstore, specifically the ability to construct
>>> an hstore from a record, and the ability to construct one from a pair
>>> of arrays.
>>>
>>> If there's any other features that people find notably missing from
>>> hstore, I could stick them in too; any requests?
>>
>> Optionally compressing the values would be nice ...
>
> The whole Datum will be toasted/compressed if it gets large enough. Is
> that not enough?
It doesn't always gets large enough, and there's no way to control that.
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