Andrew Chernow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim Hawes wrote:
>> char *e_var = getenv("PGMASTERKEY");
>> size_t length = VARSIZE(e_var) - VARHDRSZ;

> The VARSIZE macro is for variable length structures, like a text or 
> bytea which contains a length and data member.  You are using this macro 
> on a regular C string "e_var".

The code on the output side is wrong too: if the useful data length is
"length", then the palloc has to ask for length + VARHDRSZ, and that's
also what's got to be put into the length word.

                        regards, tom lane

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