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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I just thought an easier way - why don't we introduce a 'catalog_double'
> that's defined to be pg_attribute_aligned(whatever-we-need) on AIX? Then=
 we
> can get rid of the manually enforced alignedness and we don't need to co=
ntort
> catalog order.

Hm, do all the AIX compilers we care about have support for that?
If so, it seems like a great idea.

			regards, tom lane