pgsql: Fix datumSerialize infrastructure to not crash on non-varlena da

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix datumSerialize infrastructure to not crash on non-varlena da
Date: 2017-08-08 23:18:38
Message-ID: E1dfDlm-0008B0-Ku@gemulon.postgresql.org
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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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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9bf4068cc321a4d44ac54089ab651a49d89bb567

Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/datum.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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