Re: Alignment padding bytes in arrays vs the planner

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
>>> QTN2QT() allocates memory for a TSQuery using palloc().  TSQuery contains an
>>> array of QueryItem, which contains three bytes of padding between its first and
>>> second members.  Those bytes don't get initialized, so we have unpredictable
>>> content in the resulting datum.
>
>> OK, so I guess this needs to be applied and back-patched to 8.3, then.
>
> Yeah.  I'm in process of doing that, actually.

Excellent. Are you going to look at MauMau's patch for bug #6011 also?

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