Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> As an hstore user, I'd be fine with simply limiting it to 64K (or, heck,
>> 8K) and throwing an error. I'd also be fine with limiting keys to 255
>> bytes, although we'd have to warn people.
>
> Yeah, 255 might well be more of a problem than the other limit. We
> could move to something like 10/22 or 12/20 split, which would give
> us 1KB/4MB or 4KB/1MB limits.
Anything you like. What I'm saying is that I think I use hstore more
heavily than most people, and that if the limits were as low as 255b/8K
it wouldn't hurt me any.
I suppose 1K/4MB would allow OO-types to use hstore as an object store,
so you'll make them happy with a new foot gun. Why not?
--Josh
