Re: Optimize partial TOAST decompression

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 10:10:37AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>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?
>

Maybe. Let's see if just using VARSIZE_ANY does the trick. If not, I'll
investigate further.


regards

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