Re: hstore improvements?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: hstore improvements?
Date: 2009-03-14 00:05:08
Message-ID: 23902.1236989108@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)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

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