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.

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