On Mar 13, 2009, at 4:47 PM, 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.
Unless they haven't realized that we've been pulling a MySQL and
silently truncating their data. :(
On another point, I agree that compression would be nice, and the way
to fix that is to expose knobs for controlling TOAST thresholds
(something I've wanted forever).
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