> I predict that if you pump up attypmod to a 32 bit field your problems
> will go away. I'll bet that the page is being read off of disk and the
> struct is memcpy'd (or something similar) into it, rather than being
> copied field-by-field. The struct internal alignments are off for the
> Alpha, which will pad structs to get the optimal access alignment.
Ooooh, good guess. Can't wait to hear if it is correct.
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