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From: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: vignesh C <[email protected]>
Cc: Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Cc: Mihail Nikalayeu <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:59:00 +0200
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Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Antonin Houska <[email protected]> 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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