On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:04 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > I thought removing the comment altogether was not appropriate, because > it remains true that you want to work really hard to ensure that > sizeof(ItemPointerData) is 6. We're just giving up on pretense of support > for compilers that don't believe that Makes sense. > . I'm half tempted to introduce a > StaticAssert about it, but refrained for the moment. > > I also thought about that and it probably makes sense, at least to see how buildfarm behaves. One reason to do so is that I did not find any discussion or evidence of why SizeOfIptrData magic is no longer necessary and to see if it was an unintentional change at some point. > > While htup.h refactoring happened in 9.5, I don't see any point in back > > patching this. > > Agreed. Pushed to HEAD only. > Thanks. Thanks, Pavan -- Pavan Deolasee http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services