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Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/access/common/detoast.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/access/common/detoast.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/common/detoast.c b/src/backend/access/common/detoast.c index a7f7a474782..545a6b8867a 100644 --- a/src/backend/access/common/detoast.c +++ b/src/backend/access/common/detoast.c @@ -507,6 +507,17 @@ toast_decompress_datum_slice(struct varlena *attr, int32 slicelength) Assert(VARATT_IS_COMPRESSED(attr)); /* + * Some callers may pass a slicelength that's more than the actual + * decompressed size. If so, just decompress normally. This avoids + * possibly allocating a larger-than-necessary result object, and may be + * faster and/or more robust as well. Notably, some versions of liblz4 + * have been seen to give wrong results if passed an output size that is + * more than the data's true decompressed size. + */ + if ((uint32) slicelength >= TOAST_COMPRESS_EXTSIZE(attr)) + return toast_decompress_datum(attr); + + /* * Fetch the compression method id stored in the compression header and * decompress the data slice using the appropriate decompression routine. */ |