This can be solved by my proposal, but I just don't know how it would
apply to something like GIN, for instance. It could replace the unique
Hmm, your proposal isn't applicable to GIN, because GIN stores a lot of keys for only one value to be indexed.

being inserted by other concurrent transactions, and those values can
be variable in size. What other mechanism do we have to share those
variable-sized values among several backends?
In theory, any indexed value in index (for GiST, after compression) should fit into page at least.

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