Tom Lane wrote:
> > We detect cases where the typmod guarantees either a fixed size or a maximum
> > size < 256 bytes.
>
> After last week I would veto this option anyway: it fails unless we
> always know typmod exactly, and I'm here to tell you we don't.
If we can pull this off, it handles short values stored in TEXT fields
too, which is a big win over the typmod idea I had.
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