pgsql: Avoid assuming that struct varattrib_pointer doesn't get padded

From: tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org (Tom Lane)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Avoid assuming that struct varattrib_pointer doesn't get padded
Date: 2007-10-01 16:25:56
Message-ID: 20071001162556.4B6D0753E4C@cvs.postgresql.org
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Avoid assuming that struct varattrib_pointer doesn't get padded by the
compiler --- at least on ARM, it does. I suspect that the varvarlena patch
has been creating larger-than-intended toast pointers all along on ARM,
but it wasn't exposed until the latest tweak added some Asserts that
calculated the expected size in a different way. We could probably have
fixed this by adding __attribute__((packed)) as is done for ItemPointerData,
but struct varattrib_pointer isn't really all that useful anyway, so it
seems cleanest to just get rid of it and have only struct varattrib_1b_e.
Per results from buildfarm member quagga.

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/access/heap:
tuptoaster.c (r1.76 -> r1.77)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/tuptoaster.c?r1=1.76&r2=1.77)
pgsql/src/include:
postgres.h (r1.84 -> r1.85)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/postgres.h?r1=1.84&r2=1.85)

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