> Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
> > grant/revoke does not work in NetBSD/m68k. This is due to the wrong
> > assumption that sizeof(AclItem) is equal to 8 in all platforms. I am
> > going to fix this by replacing all occurrence of sizeof(AclItem) to
> > ACLITEM_SIZE (newly defined as 8 in catalog/pg_type.h). See included
> > patches. If there's no objection, I will commit them. Comments?
>
> I do not like this patch at *all*. Why is sizeof(AclItem) not the
> correct thing to use? Replacing it with a hardwired "8" seems like
> a step backwards --- not to mention a direct contradiction of what
> you claim the patch is doing.
>
> Perhaps the real problem is that the AclItem struct definition needs
> modification? Or maybe we need a way to put a machine-dependent size
> into the pg_type entry for type aclitem? The latter seems like a
> good thing to be able to do on general principles.
This makes a lot of sense.
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