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

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.)

The pgindent recipe should possibly be hardened for things like nested
parens. Here's a reworked patch 2.

cheers

andrew

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