Re: failed assertion in toasting code

"Sergey E. Koposov" <math@sai.msu.ru> writes:

> typedef struct
> {
>         int4 length;
>         unsigned char data[1];
> } image;
>
>         image *im = (image *) palloc(VARHDRSZ + out_len);
>         memset(im, 0, VARHDRSZ + out_len);
>      im->length = out_len + VARHDRSZ;

Ah, that's not going to work in 8.3 any longer. You have to change this to:

SET_VARSIZE(im, out_len+VARHDRSZ)

And you have to access the length with VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR() (or a few other
macros but that's the most convenient).

Phew. You had me scared there.

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