Re: BLOB support

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Radosław Smogura's message of jue jun 02 15:26:29 -0400 2011:
>> So do I understand good should We think about create bettered TOAST to support 
>> larger values then 30-bit length? I like this much more,

> Good :-)

> (BTW while it'd be good to have longer-than-30 bit length words for
> varlena, I'm not sure we have room for that.)

You wouldn't want to push such values around as whole values anyway.
Possibly what would work here is a variant form of TOAST pointer for
which we'd simply throw error if you tried to fetch the entire value
at once.
        regards, tom lane