Use gmtime_r() and localtime_r() instead of gmtime() and localtime(),
for thread-safety.
There are a few affected calls in libpq and ecpg's libpgtypes, which
are probably effectively bugs, because those libraries already claim
to be thread-safe.
There is one affected call in the backend. Most of the backend
otherwise uses the custom functions pg_gmtime() and pg_localtime(),
which are implemented differently.
While we're here, change the call in the backend to gmtime*() instead
of localtime*(), since for that use time zone behavior is irrelevant,
and this side-steps any questions about when time zones are
initialized by localtime_r() vs localtime().
Portability: gmtime_r() and localtime_r() are in POSIX but are not
available on Windows. Windows has functions gmtime_s() and
localtime_s() that can fulfill the same purpose, so we add some small
wrappers around them. (Note that these *_s() functions are also
different from the *_s() functions in the bounds-checking extension of
C11. We are not using those here.)
On MinGW, you can get the POSIX-style *_r() functions by defining
_POSIX_C_SOURCE appropriately before including <time.h>. This leads
to a conflict at least in plpython because apparently _POSIX_C_SOURCE
gets defined in some header there, and then our replacement
definitions conflict with the system definitions. To avoid that sort
of thing, we now always define _POSIX_C_SOURCE on MinGW and use the
POSIX-style functions here.
Reviewed-by: Stepan Neretin <sncfmgg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/eba1dc75-298e-4c46-8869-48ba8aad7d70@eisentraut.org
Previously we had a fallback implementation that made a harmless system
call, based on the assumption that system calls must contain a memory
barrier. That shouldn't be reached on any current system, and it seems
highly likely that we can easily find out how to request explicit memory
barriers, if we've already had to find out how to do atomics on a
hypothetical new system.
Removed comments and a function name referred to a spinlock used for
fallback memory barriers, but that changed in 1b468a13, which left some
misleading words behind in a few places.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/721bf39a-ed8a-44b0-8b8e-be3bd81db748%40technowledgy.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously we had a fallback implementation of pg_compiler_barrier()
that called an empty function across a translation unit boundary so the
compiler couldn't see what it did. That shouldn't be needed on any
current systems, and might not even work with a link time optimizer.
Since we now require compiler-specific knowledge of how to implement
atomics, we should also know how to implement compiler barriers on a
hypothetical new system.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/721bf39a-ed8a-44b0-8b8e-be3bd81db748%40technowledgy.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Modern versions of all relevant architectures and tool chains have
atomics support. Since edadeb07, there is no remaining reason to carry
code that simulates atomic flags and uint32 imperfectly with spinlocks.
64 bit atomics are still emulated with spinlocks, if needed, for now.
Any modern compiler capable of implementing C11 <stdatomic.h> must have
the underlying operations we need, though we don't require C11 yet. We
detect certain compilers and architectures, so hypothetical new systems
might need adjustments here.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (concept, not the patch)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (concept, not the patch)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
A later change will require atomic support, so it wouldn't make sense
for a hypothetical new system not to be able to implement spinlocks.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (concept, not the patch)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (concept, not the patch)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
This code wanted to ensure that the 'exchange' variable passed to
pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64 has correct alignment, but apparently
platforms don't actually require anything that doesn't come naturally.
While messing with pg_atomic_monotonic_advance_u64: instead of using
Max() to determine the value to return, just use
pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64()'s return value to decide; also, use
pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64 instead of the _impl version; also remove
the unnecessary underscore at the end of variable name "target".
Backpatch to 17, where this code was introduced by commit bf3ff7bf83bc.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/36796438-a718-cf9b-2071-b2c1b947c1b5@gmail.com
This old CPU architecture hasn't been produced in decades, and
whatever instances might still survive are surely too underpowered
for anyone to consider running Postgres on in production. We'd
nonetheless continued to carry code support for it (largely at my
insistence), because its unique implementation of spinlocks seemed
like a good edge case for our spinlock infrastructure. However,
our last buildfarm animal of this type was retired last year, and
it seems quite unlikely that another will emerge. Without the ability
to run tests, the argument that this is useful test code fails to
hold water. Furthermore, carrying code support for an untestable
architecture has costs not to be ignored. So, remove HPPA-specific
code, in the same vein as commits 718aa43a4 and 92d70b77e.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588@sss.pgh.pa.us
This tracks the position of WAL that's been fully copied into WAL
buffers by all processes emitting WAL. (For some reason we call that
"WAL insertion"). This is updated using atomic monotonic advance during
WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish, which is not when the insertions actually
occur, but it's the only place where we know where have all the
insertions have completed.
This value is useful in WALReadFromBuffers, which can verify that
callers don't try to read past what has been inserted. (However, more
infrastructure is needed in order to actually use WAL after the flush
point, since it could be lost.)
The value is also useful in WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() itself, since
we can now exit quickly when all WAL has been already inserted, without
even having to take any locks.
Commit 792752af4e added infrastructure for using AVX-512 intrinsic
functions, and this commit uses that infrastructure to optimize
visibilitymap_count(). Specificially, a new pg_popcount_masked()
function is introduced that applies a bitmask to every byte in the
buffer prior to calculating the population count, which is used to
filter out the all-visible or all-frozen bits as needed. Platforms
without AVX-512 support should also see a nice speedup due to the
reduced number of calls to a function pointer.
Co-authored-by: Ants Aasma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BL1PR11MB5304097DF7EA81D04C33F3D1DCA6A%40BL1PR11MB5304.namprd11.prod.outlook.com
Presently, pg_popcount() processes data in 32-bit or 64-bit chunks
when possible. Newer hardware that supports AVX-512 instructions
can use 512-bit chunks, which provides a nice speedup, especially
for larger buffers. This commit introduces the infrastructure
required to detect compiler and CPU support for the required
AVX-512 intrinsic functions, and it adds a new pg_popcount()
implementation that uses these functions. If CPU support for this
optimized implementation is detected at runtime, a function pointer
is updated so that it is used by subsequent calls to pg_popcount().
Most of the existing in-tree calls to pg_popcount() should benefit
from these instructions, and calls with smaller buffers should at
least not regress compared to v16. The new infrastructure
introduced by this commit can also be used to optimize
visibilitymap_count(), but that is left for a follow-up commit.
Co-authored-by: Paul Amonson, Ants Aasma
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent, Tom Lane, Noah Misch, Akash Shankaran, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BL1PR11MB5304097DF7EA81D04C33F3D1DCA6A%40BL1PR11MB5304.namprd11.prod.outlook.com
If there aren't many bytes to process, the function call overhead
of the optimized implementation isn't worth taking, so instead we
inline a loop that consults pg_number_of_ones in that case. If
there are many bytes to process, we accept the function call
overhead because the optimized versions are likely to be faster.
The threshold at which we use the optimized implementation is set
to the smallest amount of data required to use special popcount
instructions.
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240402155301.GA2750455%40nathanxps13
The newly-introduced "one_by_one" label produces -Wunused-label
warnings when building without SIMD support. To fix, move the
label into the SIMD section of this function.
Oversight in commit 7644a7340c.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3189995.1711495704%40sss.pgh.pa.us
This commit improves the performance of pg_lfind32() in many cases
by modifying it to process the remaining "tail" of elements with
SIMD instructions instead of processing them one-by-one. Since the
SIMD code processes a large block of elements, this means that we
will process a subset of elements more than once, but that won't
affect the correctness of the result, and testing has shown that
this helps more cases than it regresses. With this change, the
standard one-by-one linear search code is only used for small
arrays and for platforms without SIMD support.
Suggested-by: John Naylor
Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231129171526.GA857928%40nathanxps13
On some systems, calls to pg_popcount{32,64} are indirected through
a function pointer. This commit converts pg_popcount() to a
function pointer on those systems so that we can inline the
appropriate pg_popcount{32,64} implementations into each of the
pg_popcount() implementations. Since pg_popcount() may call
pg_popcount{32,64} several times, this can significantly improve
its performance.
Suggested-by: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrb7MJRB6JuKLDEY2x_LKdFHwVbogpjZBCX547i5%2BrXOQ%40mail.gmail.com
The first argument of vshrq_n_s8 needs to be a signed vector type,
but it was passed unsigned. Clang is more lax with conversion, but
gcc needs a cast.
Fix by me, tested by Masahiko Sawada
Per buildfarm members splitfin, batta, widowbird, snakefly, parula,
massasauga
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240306074106.mg6w4koohdlworbs%40alap3.anarazel.de
Writing correct code using atomic variables is often difficult due
to the memory barrier semantics (or lack thereof) of the underlying
operations. This commit introduces atomic read/write functions
with full barrier semantics to ease this cognitive load. For
example, some spinlocks protect a single value, and these new
functions make it easy to convert the value to an atomic variable
(thus eliminating the need for the spinlock) without modifying the
barrier semantics previously provided by the spinlock. Since these
functions may be less performant than the other atomic reads and
writes, they are not suitable for every use-case. However, using a
single atomic operation with full barrier semantics may be more
performant in cases where a separate explicit barrier would
otherwise be required.
The base implementations for these new functions are atomic
exchanges (for writes) and atomic fetch/adds with 0 (for reads).
These implementations can be overwritten with better architecture-
specific versions as they are discovered.
This commit leaves converting existing code to use these new
functions as a future exercise.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Yong Li, Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231110205128.GB1315705%40nathanxps13
There isn't a lot of user demand for AIX support, we have a bunch of
hacks to work around AIX-specific compiler bugs and idiosyncrasies,
and no one has stepped up to the plate to properly maintain it.
Remove support for AIX to get rid of that maintenance overhead. It's
still supported for stable versions.
The acute issue that triggered this decision was that after commit
8af2565248, the AIX buildfarm members have been hitting this
assertion:
TRAP: failed Assert("(uintptr_t) buffer == TYPEALIGN(PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, buffer)"), File: "md.c", Line: 472, PID: 2949728
Apperently the "pg_attribute_aligned(a)" attribute doesn't work on AIX
for values larger than PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, for a static const variable.
That could be worked around, but we decided to just drop the AIX support
instead.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20240224172345.32@rfd.leadboat.com
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Thomas Munro
Commit 5579388d removed code that supplied a fallback implementation of
getaddrinfo(), which was dead code on modern systems. One tiny piece of
the removed code was still doing something useful on Windows, though:
that OS's own gai_strerror()/gai_strerrorA() function returns a pointer
to a static buffer that it overwrites each time, so it's not
thread-safe. In rare circumstances, a multi-threaded client program
could get an incorrect or corrupted error message.
Restore the replacement gai_strerror() function, though now that it's
only for Windows we can put it into a win32-specific file and cut it
down to the errors that Windows documents. The error messages here are
taken from FreeBSD, because Windows' own messages seemed too verbose.
Back-patch to 16.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKz%2BF9d2PTiXwfYV7qJw%2BWg2jzACgSDgPizUw7UG%3Di58A%40mail.gmail.com
Presently, all platforms implement atomic exchanges by performing
an atomic compare-and-swap in a loop until it succeeds. This can
be especially expensive when there is contention on the atomic
variable. This commit optimizes atomic exchanges on many platforms
by using compiler intrinsics, which should compile into something
much less expensive than a compare-and-swap loop. Since these
intrinsics have been available for some time, the inline assembly
implementations are omitted.
Suggested-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231129212905.GA1258737%40nathanxps13
For the trivial case of iovcnt == 1, kernels are measurably slower at
dealing with the more complex arguments of preadv/pwritev than the
equivalent plain old pread/pwrite. The overheads are worth it for
iovcnt > 1, but for 1 let's just redirect to the cheaper calls. While
we could leave it to callers to worry about that, we already have to
have our own pg_ wrappers for portability reasons so it seems
reasonable to centralize this knowledge there (thanks to Heikki for this
suggestion). Try to avoid function call overheads by making them
inlinable, which might also allow the compiler to avoid the branch in
some cases. For systems that don't have preadv and pwritev (currently:
Windows and [closed] Solaris), we might as well pull the replacement
functions up into the static inline functions too.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJkOiOCa+mag4BF+zHo7qo=o9CFheB8=g6uT5TUm2gkvA@mail.gmail.com
The fallback implementation of pg_atomic_test_set_flag() that uses
atomic-exchange gives pg_atomic_exchange_u32_impl() an extra
argument. This issue has been present since the introduction of
the atomics API in commit b64d92f1a5.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231114035439.GA1809032%40nathanxps13
Backpatch-through: 12
* sync_method is renamed to wal_sync_method.
* sync_method_options[] is renamed to wal_sync_method_options[].
* assign_xlog_sync_method() is renamed to assign_wal_sync_method().
* The names of the available synchronization methods are now
prefixed with "WAL_SYNC_METHOD_" and have been moved into a
WalSyncMethod enum.
* PLATFORM_DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD is renamed to
PLATFORM_DEFAULT_WAL_SYNC_METHOD, and DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD is
renamed to DEFAULT_WAL_SYNC_METHOD.
These more descriptive names help distinguish the code for
wal_sync_method from the code for DataDirSyncMethod (e.g., the
recovery_init_sync_method configuration parameter and the
--sync-method option provided by several frontend utilities). This
change also prevents name collisions between the aforementioned
sets of code. Since this only improves the naming of internal
identifiers, there should be no behavior change.
Author: Maxim Orlov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACG%3DezbL1gwE7_K7sr9uqaCGkWhmvRTcTEnm3%2BX1xsRNwbXULQ%40mail.gmail.com
As with the Intel and Arm CRC instructions, compiler intrinsics for
them must be supported by the compiler. In contrast, no runtime check
is needed. Aligned memory access is faster, so use the Arm coding as
a model.
YANG Xudong
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b522a0c5-e3b2-99cc-6387-58134fb88cbe%40ymatrix.cn
MSVC's _BitScan* functions return a boolean indicating whether any
bits were set in the input, and we were previously asserting that
they returned true, per our API. This is correct. However, other
platforms simply assert that the input is non-zero, so do that to be
more consistent.
Noted while investigating a hypothesis from Ranier Vilela about
undefined behavior, but this is not his proposed patch.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEudQAoDhUZyKGJ1vbMGcgVUOcsixe-%3DjcVaDWarqkUg163D2w%40mail.gmail.com
The "fsync" level already flushes drive write caches on Windows (as does
"fdatasync"), so it only confuses matters to have an apparently higher
level that isn't actually different at all.
That leaves "fsync_writethrough" only for macOS, where it actually does
something different.
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ2CG2SouPv2mca2WCTOJxYumvBARRcKPraFMB6GSEMcA%40mail.gmail.com
Windows has similar functions with leading underscores. Previously, we
provided the rename via a macro in win32_port.h. In fact its functions
are not always good replacements for the Unix functions, since they
can't deal with UTF-8. They are only currently used by pg_locale.c,
which is careful to redirect to other Windows routines for UTF-8. Given
that portability hazard, it seem unlikely to be a good idea to encourage
any other code to think of these functions as being available outside
pg_locale.c. Any code that thinks it wants these functions probably
wants our wchar2char() or char2wchar() routines instead, or it won't
actually work on Windows in UTF-8 databases.
Furthermore, some major libc implementations including glibc don't have
them (they only have the standard variants without _l), so external code
is very unlikely to require them to exist.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2Bt_CHPzEoPnKyARJBJgE9-GxNajJo6ZuSfRK_KWFO%2B6w%40mail.gmail.com
677319746 added support for making use of MSVC's bit scanning functions.
However, that commit failed to consider 32-bit MSVC builds where the
64-bit versions of these functions are unavailable. This resulted in
compilation failures on 32-bit MSVC.
Here we adjust the code so we fall back on the manual way of finding the
bit positions for 64-bit integers when building on 32-bit MSVC.
Bug: #17967
Reported-by: Youmiu Mo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17967-cd21e34a314141b2@postgresql.org
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.
This set of diffs is a bit larger than typical. We've updated to
pg_bsd_indent 2.1.2, which properly indents variable declarations that
have multi-line initialization expressions (the continuation lines are
now indented one tab stop). We've also updated to perltidy version
20230309 and changed some of its settings, which reduces its desire to
add whitespace to lines to make assignments etc. line up. Going
forward, that should make for fewer random-seeming changes to existing
code.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230428092545.qfb3y5wcu4cm75ur@alvherre.pgsql
This fixes many spelling mistakes in comments, but a few references to
invalid parameter names, function names and option names too in comments
and also some in string constants
Also, fix an #undef that was undefining the incorrect definition
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d5f68d19-c0fc-91a9-118d-7c6a5a3f5fad@gmail.com
Calling fseek() or ftello() on a handle to a non-seeking device such as
a pipe or a communications device is not supported. Unfortunately,
MSVC's flavor of these routines, _fseeki64() and _ftelli64(), do not
return an error when given a pipe as handle. Some of the logic of
pg_dump and restore relies on these routines to check if a handle is
seekable, causing failures when passing the contents of pg_dump to
pg_restore through a pipe, for example.
This commit introduces wrappers for fseeko() and ftello() on MSVC so as
any callers are able to properly detect the cases of non-seekable
handles. This relies mainly on GetFileType(), sharing a bit of code
with the MSVC port for fstat(). The code in charge of getting a file
type is refactored into a new file called win32common.c, shared by
win32stat.c and the new win32fseek.c. It includes the MSVC ports for
fseeko() and ftello().
Like 765f5df, this is backpatched down to 14, where the fstat()
implementation for MSVC is able to understand about files larger than
4GB in size. Using a TAP test for that is proving to be tricky as
IPC::Run handles the pipes by itself, still I have been able to check
the fix manually.
Reported-by: Daniel Watzinger
Author: Juan José Santamaría Flecha, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC+AXB26a4EmxM2suXxPpJaGrqAdxracd7hskLg-zxtPB50h7A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Open long-lived data and WAL file descriptors with O_CLOEXEC. This flag
was introduced by SUSv4 (POSIX.1-2008), and by now all of our target
Unix systems have it. Our open() implementation for Windows already had
that behavior, so provide a dummy O_CLOEXEC flag on that platform.
For now, callers of open() and the "thin" wrappers in fd.c that deal in
raw descriptors need to pass in O_CLOEXEC explicitly if desired. This
commit does that for WAL files, and automatically for everything
accessed via VFDs including SMgrRelation and BufFile. (With more
discussion we might decide to turn it on automatically for the thin
open()-wrappers too to avoid risk of missing places that need it, but
these are typically used for short-lived descriptors where we don't
expect to fork/exec, and it's remotely possible that extensions could be
using these APIs and passing descriptors to subprograms deliberately, so
that hasn't been done here.)
Do the same for sockets and the postmaster pipe with FD_CLOEXEC. (Later
commits might use modern interfaces to remove these extra fcntl() calls
and more where possible, but we'll need them as a fallback for a couple
of systems, so do it that way in this initial commit.)
With this change, subprograms executed for archiving, copying etc will
no longer have access to the server's descriptors, other than the ones
that we decide to pass down.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKb6FsAdQWcRL35KJsftv%2B9zXqQbzwkfRf1i0J2e57%2BhQ%40mail.gmail.com
To allow testing for general support for fast bitscan intrinsics,
add symbols HAVE_BITSCAN_REVERSE and HAVE_BITSCAN_FORWARD.
Also do related cleanup in AllocSetFreeIndex(): Previously, we
tested for HAVE__BUILTIN_CLZ and copied the relevant internals of
pg_leftmost_one_pos32(), with a special fallback that does less
work than the general fallback for that function. Now that we have
a more general test, we just call pg_leftmost_one_pos32() directly
for platforms with intrinsic support. On gcc at least, there is no
difference in the binary for non-assert builds.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsEPc%2BFnX_0vmmQ5DHv60sk4rL_RZJ%2BMD6ei%3D76L0kFMvA%40mail.gmail.com
We'd like to use precompiled headers on windows to reduce compile times. Right
now we rely on defining UMDF_USING_NTSTATUS before including postgres.h in a few
select places - which doesn't work with precompiled headers. Instead define
it globally.
When UMDF_USING_NTSTATUS is defined we need to explicitly include ntstatus.h,
winternl.h to get a comparable set of symbols. Right now these includes would
be required in a number of non-platform-specific .c files - to avoid that,
include them in win32_port.h. Based on my measurements that doesn't increase
compile times measurably.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220927011951.j3h4o7n6bhf7dwau@awork3.anarazel.de
Commits cf112c12 and a0dc8271 were a little too hasty in getting rid of
the pg_ prefixes where we use pread(), pwrite() and vectored variants.
We dropped support for ancient Unixes where we needed to use lseek() to
implement replacements for those, but it turns out that Windows also
changes the current position even when you pass in an offset to
ReadFile() and WriteFile() if the file handle is synchronous, despite
its documentation saying otherwise.
Switching to asynchronous file handles would fix that, but have other
complications. For now let's just put back the pg_ prefix and add some
comments to highlight the non-standard side-effect, which we can now
describe as Windows-only.
Reported-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220923202439.GA1156054%40nathanxps13
Visual Studio 2015+ has support for a macro to control the alignement of
structures as of __declspec(align(#)), and this commit adds a definition
of pg_attribute_aligned() based on that. It happens that this was
already used in the implementation of atomics for MSVC. Note that there
is still no definition fo pg_attribute_packed(), so this does not impact
itemptr.h.
Author: James Coleman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe-HbtZvR3msoMtk+hYW2S0e0OapzMW8icSMYTMA+mN8Aw@mail.gmail.com
