Re: pg_controldata doesn't report 64/32bit?

"Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:

> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
>> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>>> I've just noticed that pg_controldata doesn't say anything about whether
>>> the database is 64-bit or 32-bit.
>>
>> That's because there is no such concept.
>
> I think the relevant concept is whether Datum is 32-bit or 64-bit wide.

Oh, I see what you meant now. Datum is a purely in-memory concept, it doesn't
actually reach disk.

We could always tighten this up a bit by listing the alignment of a handful of
built-in data types but I suppose there will always be holes in this area
anyways.

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