Extending varlena

Folks,

As the things stored in databases grow, we're going to start needing
to think about database objects that 4 bytes of size can't describe.
People are already storing video in lo and bytea fields.  To date, the
sizes of media files have never trended downward.

What would need to happen for the next jump up from where varlena is
now, to 8 bytes?  Would we want to use the bit-stuffing model that the
current varvarlena uses?

Cheers,
David.
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