> It might seem a minor quibble, but it seems like a more reliable approach
> might be to cast to a 64 bit type and user a 64 bit int formatter.
%ld ?  %lld? depending on architecture?

> 
> It seems unlikely that state->ptr - state->begin would yield a number that
> large but I don't know that that would be true of every platform or user.

I don't believe that it can be more that 1Gb - it's a limit for any varlena type.


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