On 2019-Jun-05, Andres Freund wrote:
> I'd much rather see this tackled in a general way than fiddling with
> individual datatypes. I think we should:
>
> 1) make fetch_att(), store_att_byval() etc support datums of any length
> between 1 and <= sizeof(Datum). Probably also convert them to inline
> functions. There's a few more functions to be adjusted, but not many,
> I think.
Does this mean that datatypes that are >4 and <=8 bytes need to handle
both cases? Is it possible for them to detect the current environment?
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