Text datums can't be directly accessed via the struct equivalence trick
used to access catalogs. That's because, as an optimization, they're
sometimes aligned to 1 byte ("text"'s alignment), and sometimes to 4
bytes. That depends on it being a short
varlena (cf. VARATT_NOT_PAD_BYTE) or not.
In the case at hand here, partkey became longer than 127 characters -
the boundary for short varlenas (cf. VARATT_CAN_MAKE_SHORT()). Thus it
became 4 byte/int aligned. Which lead to the direct struct access
accessing the wrong data.
The fix is simply to never access partkey that way - to enforce that,
hide partkey ehind the usual ifdef.
Fixes: #674
Metin Doslu
Marco Slot
Burak Yucesoy
Andres Freund
Jason Petersen
Onder Kalaci