>>>>> "Josh" == Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes:

 > Tom Lane wrote:
 >> Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes:
 >>> As an hstore user, I'd be fine with simply limiting it to 64K (or,
 >>> heck, 8K) and throwing an error.  I'd also be fine with limiting
 >>> keys to 255 bytes, although we'd have to warn people.
 >> Yeah, 255 might well be more of a problem than the other limit.  We
 >> could move to something like 10/22 or 12/20 split, which would give
 >> us 1KB/4MB or 4KB/1MB limits.

 Josh> Anything you like.  What I'm saying is that I think I use
 Josh> hstore more heavily than most people, and that if the limits
 Josh> were as low as 255b/8K it wouldn't hurt me any.

 Josh> I suppose 1K/4MB would allow OO-types to use hstore as an
 Josh> object store, so you'll make them happy with a new foot gun.
 Josh> Why not?

I decided to obviate the entire question and remove the limits
altogether (while still keeping the overhead the same, i.e. 8 bytes
per entry).

-- 
Andrew.

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