Ensure proper alignment of tuples in HashMemoryChunkData buffers.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 5dc692f78d3bee1e86d095a9e8d9242b44f78b01
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2018-01-03T02:23:06Z
Releases: 11.0
Ensure proper alignment of tuples in HashMemoryChunkData buffers.

The previous coding relied (without any documentation) on the data[]
member of HashMemoryChunkData being at a MAXALIGN'ed offset.  If it
was not, the tuples would not be maxaligned either, leading to failures
on alignment-picky machines.  While there seems to be no live bug on any
platform we support, this is clearly pretty fragile: any addition to or
rearrangement of the fields in HashMemoryChunkData could break it.
Let's remove the hazard by getting rid of the data[] member and instead
using pointer arithmetic with an explicitly maxalign'ed offset.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14483.1514938129@sss.pgh.pa.us

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PathChange+/−
src/backend/executor/nodeHash.c modified +15 −19
src/include/executor/hashjoin.h modified +9 −3

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