> What are you doing that requires records over 64K?

64k says nothing about its consequences. I can barely use 4k utf8
strings (non-indexable that is). Whenever I get another "sort record
too big" or I put too many in view columns or sp params, I drop the
bar at 2k, and go on with life. Don't like it though, so I rant aloud
:)

So it's not really the storage limitation that bothers me, but the
limitations of various runtime structures, like in list(), group-by or
view columns, which pop up at unexpected times, and you have to
rethink your queries again.