Re: [HACKERS] [bug-fix] Cannot select big bytea values (~600MB)

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.

See these commits:
    fa2fa9955280 42f50cb8fa98 b66adb7b0c83
and the discussion threads linked in the commit messages.

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