[HACKERS] Unusable SP-GiST index

While trying to find a case where spgist wins over btree for text, I
came across the following behavior which I would consider a bug:

CREATE TABLE texts (value text);
INSERT INTO texts SELECT repeat('a', (2^20)::integer);
CREATE INDEX ON texts USING spgist (value);
SET enable_seqscan = off;
TABLE texts;

That produces:

ERROR:  index row requires 12024 bytes, maximum size is 8191

It seems to me the index should not be allowed to be created if it won't
be usable.
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