And it's not clear _int_gist.c has been running with toasted array values for
years because it's limited to arrays of 100 integers (or perhaps 200 integers,
there's a factor of 2 in the test). That's not enough to trigger toasting
unless there are other large columns in the same table.
That's was intended limitation to prevent indexing of huge arrays. gist__int_ops
compression method is orientated for small and isn't effective on big ones.
I do know that with packed varlenas I get a crash in g_int_union among other
places. I can't tell where the datum came from originally and how it ended up
stored in packed format.
Can you provide your patch (in current state) and test suite? Or backtrace at
least.
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