amcheck: Reword some messages and fix an alignment problem.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: 9acaf1a62197205b06a85afbfcaa7ffaac939ef3
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-04-14T16:46:31Z
Releases: 14.0
amcheck: Reword some messages and fix an alignment problem.

We don't need to mention the attribute number in these messages, because
there's a dedicated column for that, but we should mention the toast
value ID, because that's really useful for any follow-up troubleshooting
the user wants to do. This also rewords some of the messages to hopefully
read a little better.

Also, use VARATT_EXTERNAL_GET_POINTER in case we're accessing a TOAST
pointer that isn't aligned on a platform that's fussy about alignment,
so that we don't crash while corruption-checking the user's data.

Mark Dilger, reviewed by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7D3B9BF6-50D0-4C30-8506-1C1851C7F96F@enterprisedb.com

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contrib/amcheck/verify_heapam.c modified +36 −27
src/bin/pg_amcheck/t/004_verify_heapam.pl modified +2 −2

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