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commit    b08fd11508a2b36e64f456d8e0345f1c66dae333
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Thu Jul 29 19:23:37 2010 +0000
First released in: 9.1.0, 8.0.26, 8.1.22, 8.2.18, 8.3.12, 8.4.5, 9.0.0

    Fix another longstanding problem in copy_relation_data: it was blithely
    assuming that a local char[] array would be aligned on at least a word
    boundary.  There are architectures on which that is pretty much guaranteed to
    NOT be the case ... and those arches also don't like non-aligned memory
    accesses, meaning that log_newpage() would crash if it ever got invoked.
    Even on Intel-ish machines there's a potential for a large performance penalty
    from doing I/O to an inadequately aligned buffer.  So palloc it instead.
    
    Backpatch to 8.0 --- 7.4 doesn't have this code.


 src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index 3a899125a62..d07e51fb658 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c,v 1.288.2.4 2010/07/01 14:12:04 rhaas Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c,v 1.288.2.5 2010/07/29 19:23:37 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -6822,11 +6822,20 @@ static void
 copy_relation_data(SMgrRelation src, SMgrRelation dst,
 				   ForkNumber forkNum, bool istemp)
 {
+	char	   *buf;
+	Page		page;
 	bool		use_wal;
 	BlockNumber nblocks;
 	BlockNumber blkno;
-	char		buf[BLCKSZ];
-	Page		page = (Page) buf;
+
+	/*
+	 * palloc the buffer so that it's MAXALIGN'd.  If it were just a local
+	 * char[] array, the compiler might align it on any byte boundary, which
+	 * can seriously hurt transfer speed to and from the kernel; not to
+	 * mention possibly making log_newpage's accesses to the page header fail.
+	 */
+	buf = (char *) palloc(BLCKSZ);
+	page = (Page) buf;
 
 	/*
 	 * We need to log the copied data in WAL iff WAL archiving is enabled AND
@@ -6855,6 +6864,8 @@ copy_relation_data(SMgrRelation src, SMgrRelation dst,
 		smgrextend(dst, forkNum, blkno, buf, true);
 	}
 
+	pfree(buf);
+
 	/*
 	 * If the rel isn't temp, we must fsync it down to disk before it's safe
 	 * to commit the transaction.  (For a temp rel we don't care since the rel


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