Fix GiST index-only scans for opclasses with different storage type.

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: 55b59eda13a742f8af913734e22ecc8a21754414
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2015-03-26T21:07:52Z
Releases: 9.5.0
Fix GiST index-only scans for opclasses with different storage type.

We cannot use the index's tuple descriptor directly to describe the index
tuples returned in an index-only scan. That's because the index might use
a different datatype for the values stored on disk than the type originally
indexed. As long as they were both pass-by-ref, it worked, but will not work
for pass-by-value types of different sizes. I noticed this as a crash when I
started hacking a patch to add fetch methods to btree_gist.

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