Fix datumSerialize infrastructure to not crash on non-varlena data.
Commit 1efc7e538 did a poor job of emulating existing logic for touching
Datums that might be expanded-object pointers. It didn't check for typlen
being -1 first, which meant it could crash on fixed-length pass-by-ref
values, and probably on cstring values as well. It also didn't use
DatumGetPointer before VARATT_IS_EXTERNAL_EXPANDED, which while currently
harmless is not according to documentation nor prevailing style.
I also think the lack of any explanation as to why datumSerialize makes
these particular nonobvious choices is pretty awful, so fix that.
Per report from Jarred Ward. Back-patch to 9.6 where this code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6F61E6D2-2F5E-4794-9479-A429BE1CEA4B@simple.com
Branch
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REL9_6_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fe578cbd4b4262496d44cb5cd110eae3c4aff48c
Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/datum.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)