On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 3:01 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Extending that to arbitrary lengths obviously at some point makes the encoding > in unary wasteful, and the benefit of few branches vanishes. So what I was > thinking is that for variable length pieces of data that are not limited to 8 > bytes, we could replace the '8 0 bits' special case with a new special case: > The length in bytes follows as a max-8-byte varint.
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? -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
