Re: Use C11 alignas instead of palloc/malloc for alignment

On 08.09.26 16:05, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 2026-09-08 Tu 6:08 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> There are a number of places where palloc()/malloc()/etc. was used
>> solely to obtain an aligned buffer.  We can do these much simpler by
>> using alignas with a local variable instead.  See attached patch.
>>
>> One of these revealed a small problem with how pgindent handles
>> alignas (it doesn't know about it and it might or might not work well
>> depending on context), so I added a workaround into pgindent to fix
>> that.  (Or we could try to reshuffle that code to avoid the problem.)
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> The pgindent recipe should possibly be hardened for things like nested
> parens. Here's a reworked patch 2.

Thanks, this is a clever solution. I have committed this separately.