Re: hstore improvements?

>>>>> "Josh" == Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:>> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:>>> As an hstore user, I'd be fine with simply limiting it
to64K (or,>>> heck, 8K) and throwing an error.  I'd also be fine with limiting>>> keys to 255 bytes, although we'd have
towarn people.>> Yeah, 255 might well be more of a problem than the other limit.  We>> could move to something like
10/22or 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 useJosh> hstore more heavily than most people, and that if
thelimitsJosh> 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 anJosh> object store, so you'll make them happy with a new
footgun.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.