| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart) |
| Cc: | brett(at)work(dot)chicken(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] dec alpha/64bit stuff |
| Date: | 1998-03-07 06:06:12 |
| Message-ID: | 199803070606.BAA03137@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I predict that if you pump up attypmod to a 32 bit field your problems
> will go away. I'll bet that the page is being read off of disk and the
> struct is memcpy'd (or something similar) into it, rather than being
> copied field-by-field. The struct internal alignments are off for the
> Alpha, which will pad structs to get the optimal access alignment.
Ooooh, good guess. Can't wait to hear if it is correct.
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