Re: AIX support - alignment issues

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: AIX support - alignment issues
Date: 2022-07-05 06:30:14
Message-ID: 20220705063014.jm3ntiumaj6ikaor@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-07-05 01:36:24 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)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 contort
> > catalog order.
>
> Hm, do all the AIX compilers we care about have support for that?
> If so, it seems like a great idea.

Afaics we support xlc and gcc on AIX, and we enable the attribute for both
already. So, I think they do.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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