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-rw-r--r--src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index f82109bab35..bce8750d293 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c,v 1.142.4.13 2010/07/29 16:15:47 rhaas Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c,v 1.142.4.14 2010/07/29 19:24:05 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -5729,11 +5729,11 @@ static void
copy_relation_data(Relation rel, SMgrRelation dst)
{
SMgrRelation src;
+ char *buf;
+ Page page;
bool use_wal;
BlockNumber nblocks;
BlockNumber blkno;
- char buf[BLCKSZ];
- Page page = (Page) buf;
/*
* Since we copy the data directly without looking at the shared
@@ -5745,6 +5745,15 @@ copy_relation_data(Relation rel, SMgrRelation dst)
FlushRelationBuffers(rel, 0);
/*
+ * palloc the buffer so that it's MAXALIGN'd. If it were just a local
+ * char[] array, the compiler might align it on any byte boundary, which
+ * can seriously hurt transfer speed to and from the kernel; not to
+ * mention possibly making PageSetLSN fail.
+ */
+ buf = (char *) palloc(BLCKSZ);
+ page = (Page) buf;
+
+ /*
* We need to log the copied data in WAL iff WAL archiving is enabled
* AND it's not a temp rel.
*/
@@ -5807,6 +5816,8 @@ copy_relation_data(Relation rel, SMgrRelation dst)
smgrwrite(dst, blkno, buf, true);
}
+ pfree(buf);
+
/*
* If the rel isn't temp, we must fsync it down to disk before it's
* safe to commit the transaction. (For a temp rel we don't care