Hello. Thanks to everyone for the review.
> It seems to me storing the index itself is simpler and maybe faster by > the cycles to perform addition. Yes, first version used 1-byte for offset with maximum value of 255. Agreed, looks like there is no sense to store offsets now. > A simple patch like this seems to hit the main concern, aiming to keep > the array from spreading out and impacting snapshot performance for > SELECTs, yet not doing it so often that the startup process has a > higher burden of work. Nice, I'll do performance testing for both versions and master branch as baseline. Thanks, Michail.