Re: Optimize partial TOAST decompression

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Hmmm, this seems to trigger a failure on thorntail, which is a sparc64
> machine (and it seems to pass on all x86 machines, so far).

gharial's not happy either, and I bet if you wait a bit longer you'll
see the same on other big-endian machines.

> I wonder if that's wrong, somehow ... Maybe it should use VARSIZE_ANY,
> but then how would it work on any platform and only fail on sparc64?

Maybe it accidentally seems to work on little-endian, thanks to the
different definitions of varlena headers?

            regards, tom lane