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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/gin/ginpostinglist.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginpostinglist.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginpostinglist.c
index 9d68a980722..81bbb09c244 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/ginpostinglist.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/ginpostinglist.c
@@ -176,6 +176,9 @@ decode_varbyte(unsigned char **ptr)
* 'maxsize' bytes in size. The number items in the returned segment is
* returned in *nwritten. If it's not equal to nipd, not all the items fit
* in 'maxsize', and only the first *nwritten were encoded.
+ *
+ * The allocated size of the returned struct is short-aligned, and the padding
+ * byte at the end, if any, is zero.
*/
GinPostingList *
ginCompressPostingList(const ItemPointer ipd, int nipd, int maxsize,
@@ -188,9 +191,12 @@ ginCompressPostingList(const ItemPointer ipd, int nipd, int maxsize,
unsigned char *ptr;
unsigned char *endptr;
+ maxsize = SHORTALIGN_DOWN(maxsize);
+
result = palloc(maxsize);
maxbytes = maxsize - offsetof(GinPostingList, bytes);
+ Assert(maxbytes > 0);
/* Store the first special item */
result->first = ipd[0];
@@ -228,6 +234,13 @@ ginCompressPostingList(const ItemPointer ipd, int nipd, int maxsize,
}
result->nbytes = ptr - result->bytes;
+ /*
+ * If we wrote an odd number of bytes, zero out the padding byte at the
+ * end.
+ */
+ if (result->nbytes != SHORTALIGN(result->nbytes))
+ result->bytes[result->nbytes] = 0;
+
if (nwritten)
*nwritten = totalpacked;