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    Fix bogus code in contrib/ tsearch dictionary examples. · e3e3087d
    Tom Lane authored
    Both dict_int and dict_xsyn were blithely assuming that whatever memory
    palloc gives back will be pre-zeroed.  This would typically work for
    just about long enough to run their regression tests, and no longer :-(.
    
    The pre-9.0 code in dict_xsyn was even lamer than that, as it would
    happily give back a pointer to the result of palloc(0), encouraging
    its caller to access off the end of memory.  Again, this would just
    barely fail to fail as long as memory contained nothing but zeroes.
    
    Per a report from Rodrigo Hjort that code based on these examples
    didn't work reliably.
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