Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I can't say that I find this a nice clean solution; but does anyone have >> a better one?
> I'm thinking instead of having struct varlena (which you're not allowed to > safely use any members of anyways) we should just have a typedef to void*. I don't think we could imagine eliminating the struct name, especially not as a back-patchable solution; there would be too many random breakages. It might work to change struct varlena's contents to something like char vl_len_[4]; /* Do not touch this field directly! */ char vl_dat[1]; so that the compiler wouldn't see it as necessarily having more than 1-byte alignment. This would also not break any existing code that is following the rules (touching vl_dat has never been stated to be verboten). regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster