Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-01-02 20:40:50 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> OK, then there's not a live bug, but I'm a bit tempted to get rid of
>> the data[] member anyway. It's not clear to me now that keeping it
>> results in net cleaner code. Thoughts?
> I like that plan. I don't think the data field buys us anything, and I
> personally in most cases find "fully manual" alignment code easier to
> reason about than fiddling with padding fields.
Agreed --- I'll go do that.
regards, tom lane