Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Or we could increase the size of hstore values so as to provide more
>> than 32 bits total for this, but that would presumably be pessimal for
>> all existing applications; there is evidently no one using more than
>> 64K, or we'd have heard complaints before.
> Would it work to allow storing toast pointers for values?
Given that there is nobody using this for values > 64K, that seems like
far too much complication. (Hint: how you gonna vacuum toast pointers
embedded within datums? Especially within a datatype that isn't even
known to the core code?)
regards, tom lane
