I'm having an issue inside a SPI routine that is giving me crashes.
I'm curious if this is a backend problem or something that I am doing
improperly.  The following SPI routine dumps core for large, but
reasonable allocations:

/* testing function. just makes bytea a of input len */
Datum _genbytes(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
        int nbytes = PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
        bytea* out;

        if(SPI_connect() != SPI_OK_CONNECT)
        MAKE_PGERROR("SPI_connect");

        PG_NEW_BYTEA(out, nbytes); // see below

        SPI_finish();
        PG_RETURN_BYTEA_P(out);
}

#define PG_NEW_BYTEA(_bytea, _len) do{ \
        int __l = (int)(_len) + VARHDRSZ; \
        _bytea = (bytea *)palloc(__l); \
        SET_VARSIZE(_bytea, __l); \
} while(0)

If SPI connect/finish is not inside the function (this is a reduced
example), I do not get the crash.  If the bytea allocation is _before_
SPI connect, no crash, and no crash for small allocations.

I noticed in some of the contrib code that some allocations look like
they are being aligned.  Am I doing anything wrong here?

merlin

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