Reducing the assumed alignment of struct varlena means that the compiler
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:47:47 +0000 (17:47 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:47:47 +0000 (17:47 +0000)
commitee272cca359c0cf72c1992d15325e837dfb79694
tree381e9caac414c84153154fbd13849da7e866aae0
parent9b7a73f971ffda9c5ae88e9a5f8e22169d1a5a5c
Reducing the assumed alignment of struct varlena means that the compiler
is also licensed to put a local variable declared that way at an unaligned
address.  Which will not work if the variable is then manipulated with
SET_VARSIZE or other macros that assume alignment.  So the previous patch
is not an unalloyed good, but on balance I think it's still a win, since
we have very few places that do that sort of thing.  Fix the one place in
tuptoaster.c that does it.  Per buildfarm results from gypsy_moth
(I'm a bit surprised that only one machine showed a failure).
src/backend/access/heap/tuptoaster.c