Re: [HACKERS] dec alpha/64bit stuff
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: brett@work.chicken.org, pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-03-07T06:06:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 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. -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h)