Re: Sort support for macaddr8

On 2019-Jun-05, Andres Freund wrote:

> I'd much rather see this tackled in a general way than fiddling with
> individual datatypes. I think we should:
> 
> 1) make fetch_att(), store_att_byval() etc support datums of any length
>    between 1 and <= sizeof(Datum). Probably also convert them to inline
>    functions. There's a few more functions to be adjusted, but not many,
>    I think.

Does this mean that datatypes that are >4 and <=8 bytes need to handle
both cases?  Is it possible for them to detect the current environment?

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