Re: jsonb access operators inefficiency

> I see that palloc.h says:
>
> The result of palloc() is always word-aligned

void *
repalloc(void *pointer, Size size)
{
...
/*
* Try to detect bogus pointers handed to us, poorly though we can.
* Presumably, a pointer that isn't MAXALIGNED isn't pointing at an
* allocated chunk.
*/
Assert(pointer != NULL);
Assert(pointer == (void *) MAXALIGN(pointer));
...

>
>
> so maybe my alignment fear is misplaced. So my remaining question is
> whether this is OK stylistically.

Something like this?
initStringInfoVarlena()/makeStringInfoVarlena()
{
initStringInfo()
appendStringInfoSpaces(jtext, VARHDRSZ);
}

char*
formStringInfoVarlena()
{
SET_VARSIZE(jtext->data, jtext->len);
return jtext->data;
}

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