Hi,
On 2018-10-17 13:04:33 -0400, James Coleman wrote:
> Indeed. But I do think your approach - which means that the binary data is
> > actually interpreded as a datum of a specific type, drastically
> > increases the risk.
> >
> >
> Agreed.
>
> As I noted earlier, I don't at all think deTOASTing is a must for this
> function to be
> valuable, just as tuple_data_split() is also valuable without deTOASTINGing.
>
> I believe "best effort" is very reasonable in the case of a what is an
> investigatory
> method to begin with.
It's far from only toast that could be problematic here.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
