substring(), and perhaps other callers, isn't careful to pass a
slice length that is no more than the datum's true size.  Since
toast_decompress_datum_slice's children will palloc the requested
slice length, this can waste memory.  Also, close study of the liblz4
documentation suggests that it is dependent on the caller to not ask
for more than the correct amount of decompressed data; this squares
with observed misbehavior with liblz4 1.8.3.  Avoid these problems
by switching to the normal full-decompression code path if the
slice request is >= datum's decompressed size.

Tom Lane and Dilip Kumar

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/507597.1616370729@sss.pgh.pa.us