Hi,
On 2018-02-16 09:58:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Anna Akenteva <a.akenteva@postgrespro.ru> writes:
> > [ widen StringInfoData max length to size_t ]
>
> I find this scary as heck. Have you spent any time looking at the
> side effects? There are probably hundreds of places that expect that
> stringinfos won't get larger than 1GB.
FWIW, I think we're going to have to bite that bullet sooner rather than
later. I do agree it's not going to fix this issue for real, and that
we're not going to backpatch it.
Greetings,
Andres Freund