Clean up att_align calculations so that XXXALIGN macros

need not be bogus.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/postgres.h b/src/include/postgres.h
index ed625cd07d0..ab57059295f 100644
--- a/src/include/postgres.h
+++ b/src/include/postgres.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 1995, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: postgres.h,v 1.20 1999/02/13 23:20:46 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: postgres.h,v 1.21 1999/03/25 03:49:28 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -92,9 +92,14 @@ typedef struct varlena text;
 typedef int2 int28[8];
 typedef Oid oid8[8];
 
-typedef struct nameData
+/* We want NameData to have length NAMEDATALEN and int alignment,
+ * because that's how the data type 'name' is defined in pg_type.
+ * Use a union to make sure the compiler agrees.
+ */
+typedef union nameData
 {
 	char		data[NAMEDATALEN];
+	int			alignmentDummy;
 } NameData;
 typedef NameData *Name;