Re: Relation bulk write facility

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Relation bulk write facility
Date: 2024-02-27 20:45:45
Message-ID: 2153379.1709066745@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> What do y'all think of adding a check for
> ALIGNOF_DOUBLE==MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF to configure.ac and meson.build? It's
> not a requirement today, but I believe AIX was the only platform where
> that was not true. With AIX gone, that combination won't be tested, and
> we will probably break it sooner or later.

+1, and then probably revert the whole test addition of 79b716cfb7a.

I did a quick scrape of the buildfarm, and identified these as the
only animals reporting ALIGNOF_DOUBLE less than 8:

$ grep 'alignment of double' alignments | grep -v ' 8$'
hornet | 2024-02-22 16:26:16 | checking alignment of double... 4
lapwing | 2024-02-27 12:40:15 | checking alignment of double... (cached) 4
mandrill | 2024-02-19 01:03:47 | checking alignment of double... 4
sungazer | 2024-02-21 00:22:48 | checking alignment of double... 4
tern | 2024-02-22 13:25:12 | checking alignment of double... 4

With AIX out of the picture, lapwing will be the only remaining
animal testing MAXALIGN less than 8. That seems like a single
point of failure ... should we spin up another couple 32-bit
animals? I had supposed that my faithful old PPC animal mamba
was helping to check this, but I see that under NetBSD it's
joined the ALIGNOF_DOUBLE==8 crowd.

regards, tom lane

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