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    Add comment on why pulling data from a "name" index column can't crash. · 8c8ba6d1
    Tom Lane authored
    It's been bothering me for several days that pretending that the cstring
    data stored in a btree name_ops column is really a "name" Datum could lead
    to reading past the end of memory.  However, given the current memory
    layout used for index-only scans in the btree code, a crash is in fact not
    possible.  Document that so we don't break it.  I have not thought of any
    other solutions that aren't fairly ugly too, and most of them lose the
    functionality of index-only scans on name columns altogether, so this seems
    like the way to go.
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