From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:55:15 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Initialize pad bytes in GinFormTuple().
X-Git-Tag: REL9_4_BETA1~1430
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Initialize pad bytes in GinFormTuple().

Every other core buffer page consumer initializes the bytes it furnishes
to PageAddItem().  For consistency, do the same here.  No back-patch;
regardless, we couldn't count on the fix so long as binary upgrade can
carry forward affected index builds.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginentrypage.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginentrypage.c
index 8ead38f234a..7733028fba8 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/ginentrypage.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/ginentrypage.c
@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ GinFormTuple(GinState *ginstate,
 	if (newsize != IndexTupleSize(itup))
 	{
 		itup = repalloc(itup, newsize);
+		/*
+		 * PostgreSQL 9.3 and earlier did not clear this new space, so we
+		 * might find uninitialized padding when reading tuples from disk.
+		 */
+		memset((char *) itup + IndexTupleSize(itup),
+			   0, newsize - IndexTupleSize(itup));
 
 		/* set new size in tuple header */
 		itup->t_info &= ~INDEX_SIZE_MASK;