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From: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Cc: Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Subject: Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:59:00 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <3074023.1775666853@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> writes:

> > We already introduced this definition above in the function to suppress this
> > kind of warning
> 
> >     union
> >     {
> > 	    alignas(int32) varlena hdr;
> > 	    char		data[sizeof(void *)];
> >     }			chunk_header;
> 
> > The problem on a 32-bit system probably is that sizeof(void *) is 4. We need
> > some other constant. Maybe (sizeof(varlena) + 1) ...
> 
> This seems unnecessarily Rube Goldberg-ish already.

Indeed.

> Why not just
> 
> 	uint64	chunk_header;
> 
> It will not hurt anything if the variable has more-than-required
> alignment.  And it'd be better if it were the same size everywhere.

That's certainly better. Thanks.

-- 
Antonin Houska
Web: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com





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