From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
cc: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>,
        Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>,
        Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>,
        pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org,
        Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
Subject: Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock
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Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>> because the failed assertion is:
>> #ifndef PG_HAVE_ATOMIC_U64_SIMULATION
>>     AssertPointerAlignment(&currval, 8);
>> #endif

Perhaps this assertion is what is wrong?  If the platform has no
native 8-byte alignment requirement, why do we think that atomics
need it?

			regards, tom lane