Re: PGPROC alignment (was Re: pgsql: Separate RecoveryConflictReasons from procsignals)

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 11:42:35AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 24.02.26 12:28, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > > You can/should use C11 standard alignas(), so you don't need to worry about
> > > whether it's supported or not.
> >
> > Oh right, I did not notice 300c8f53247 and following like e7075a3405c, d4c0f91f7d5
> > and 97e04c74bed.
> >
> > PFA, 0001 doing so for PGPROC and PgAioUringContext. As those are typedef,
> > the patch puts alignas within the struct.
> >
> > For PGPROC at the start of the struct, I think that placing it on the first member
> > is the right location because it ensures the whole struct is aligned to PG_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
> > without adding padding before this member. For example if I set it on backendType,
> > then it adds 100 bytes of padding and the struct is obviously still a multiple of
> > PG_CACHE_LINE_SIZE but is now 1024 bytes (instead of 896).
> >
> > For PgAioUringContext at completion_lock (like suggested by Andres in [1]), which
> > is also the start of the struct.
> >
> > I checked and the padding for those are exactly the same after the changes.
>
> I have committed the 0001 patch.

Thanks! I don't know why but I don't see it in https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=summary,
or in the github repo though.

> > 0002, is also making use of alignas in ItemPointerData, but this one is more
> > tricky so I'm not sure that's worth it (given the fact that we still need to
> > keep pg_attribute_aligned() as explained by Peter in [2]).
>
> This doesn't seem worth it to me. Let's skip it.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Regards,

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