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Re: Decoupling our alignment assumptions about int64 and double

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Aditya Kamath <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Srirama Kucherlapati <sriram.rk@in.ibm.com>, AIX PG user <postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: 2026-02-10T22:23:03Z
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Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> it would be surprising if this stuff doesn't work on this tool chain:

> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openxl-c-and-cpp-aix/17.1.4?topic=new-enhanced-llvm-clang-support

Yeah, I'd be interested in trying that toolchain once we have a
finished port on gcc.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Cope with AIX's alignment woes by using _Pragma("pack").

  2. Make some minor cleanups in typalign-related code.

  3. Refactor att_align_nominal() to improve performance.