Add alignment option to ShmemRequestStruct()

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: dacfe81a0de513308e6753fe3d9b4f3e4811da69
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2026-04-05T23:13:06Z
Add alignment option to ShmemRequestStruct()

The buffer blocks, converted to use ShmemRequestStruct() in the next
commit, are IO-aligned. This might come handy in other places too, so
make it an explicit feature of ShmemRequestStruct().

Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAExHW5vM1bneLYfg0wGeAa=52UiJ3z4vKd3AJ72X8Fw6k3KKrg@mail.gmail.com

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src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c modified +28 −11
src/include/storage/shmem.h modified +6 −0

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