Re: hstore improvements?

From: decibel <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 14:19:40
Message-ID: 954247BB-FCC6-420C-8476-3C8C89C59C6C@decibel.org
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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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Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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