Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:42:13 +0000
From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
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Subject: Re: PGPROC alignment (was Re: pgsql: Separate
 RecoveryConflictReasons from procsignals)
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Hi,

On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 11:03:09PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 11/02/2026 06:40, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > That looks ok to see PGPROC as an "acceptable" one, if not, should we use the
> > union trick?
> 
> It seems acceptable to just not align it if the compiler doesn't support it.
> This is just a performance optimization, after all.

Agreed.

> Attached is new versions the remaining patches. I think these are ready to
> be committed.

Thanks!

One nit, 0001 is adding the typedef:

"
-struct PGPROC
+typedef struct PGPROC
.
.
.
-};
-
-/* NOTE: "typedef struct PGPROC PGPROC" appears in storage/lock.h. */
+       uint32          wait_event_info;        /* proc's wait information */
+} PGPROC;
"

Would that make more sense to add the typedef when we introduce the explicit
alignment in 0002 (like it was done in your previous
v2-0001-Align-PGPROC-to-cache-line-boundary.patch up-thread)?

Regards,

-- 
Bertrand Drouvot
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