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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: document json[b] limitation
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Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@postgrespro.ru> writes:
> Attached is a small patch, which documents the maximum size of
> json[b] types. Probably, it's worth to patch previous releases, where
> the types were introduced.

If you said "maximum size is 1GB", period, I'd believe it ... although
I'm pretty sure that general limitation is already documented elsewhere.
I don't believe that it's possible to make a 256 Gb jsonb.  How will
that fit in the varlena header?

			regards, tom lane