Pushed a version (hopefully) fixing Tom's complaints.
On 2015-01-28 13:52:30 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2015-01-28 13:38:51 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> #define BUFFERDESC_PADDED_SIZE (SIZEOF_VOID_P == 8 ? 64 : 32)
>
> > Hm, did you intentionally put a 32in there or was that just the logical
> > continuation of 64? Because there's no way it'll ever fit into 32 bytes
> > in the near future. That's why I had put the sizeof(BufferDesc)
> > there. We could just make it 1 as well, to indicate that we don't want
> > any padding...
>
> Yeah, 1 would be fine too. Maybe better to call it BUFFERDESC_MIN_SIZE,
> because as this stands it's enforcing a min size not exact size.
It's _PAD_TO_SIZE now.
> not going to whinge about that aspect of it; the main point here is to
> put in the union and fix the ensuing notational fallout. We can worry
> about exactly what size to pad to as a separate discussion.)
Yea. The details can be changed in a concise way now. I hope ;)
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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