Hi, On 2018-10-17 13:04:33 -0400, James Coleman wrote: > Indeed. But I do think your approach - which means that the binary data is > > actually interpreded as a datum of a specific type, drastically > > increases the risk. > > > > > Agreed. > > As I noted earlier, I don't at all think deTOASTing is a must for this > function to be > valuable, just as tuple_data_split() is also valuable without deTOASTINGing. > > I believe "best effort" is very reasonable in the case of a what is an > investigatory > method to begin with.
It's far from only toast that could be problematic here. Greetings, Andres Freund
