Currently, the widget stores the entity object in the #selection_settings in order to pass it to the selection handler and use it there. This causes two issues:
key_value table, with entity_autocomplete as collection. This takes up unnecessary storage.entity_autocomplete row is stored. Due to the dynamic nature of that entity object, a lot of (unnecessary) rows end up in the key_value table.On a website where I'm using Tagify heavily this has resulted in a key_value table of 1.5 GiB.
Stop storing the entity in the selection settings.
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Thank you very much Dieter and Christian for your effort here.
It will be included in the next release 1.2.42
Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.