On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 3:46 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > But what if I have a machine with more than 16 exabytes of RAM and I
> > want to use all of its memory to store one really big integer?
>
> Then the embedded 8 byte length value would just have to do the same thing
> recursively to store that huge length header :)
Well, yes. But more seriously, my point is that I can't imagine why we
would need an object with a length bounded by 2^64. I mean I suppose
there's no harm in looking to the future, but that's *really big*.
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Robert Haas
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