On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 24.06.2011 21:24, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> Out of curiosity (and because there is no comment or Assert here), how
>> can you be so sure of the input alignment?
>
> The input TRGM to makesign() is a varlena, so it must be at least 4-byte
> aligned. If it was not for some reason, the existing VARSIZE invocation
> (within GETARR()) would already fail on platforms that are strict about
> alignment.
Hmm, OK. Might be worth adding a comment, anyway...
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