Re: Attribute Alignment

Is this alignment relative to the beginning of the page or tuple, or even
the tuple data area (after the tuple header)?

-Michael

> "Michael Richards" <miker@interchange.ca> writes:
> > The alignment seems to be wrong for type CHAR(1):
>
> No, the alignment is fine.  A field's align constraint says where it has
> to start, not where the next field has to start.  gender starts on a
> 4-byte boundary and is 5 bytes long, then we have one byte wasted for
> alignment of yearofbirth, then yearofbirth starts on a 2-byte boundary.
> Everyone's happy.
>
> regards, tom lane