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From: Mike Tung <mike@ibm4.carb.nist.gov>
To: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: int4 Array
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:52:06 -0500
Message-ID: <9503101652.AA17472@ibm4.carb.nist.gov> (raw)


Hi, 

i found there are 4 byte gap in the structure for array of int4.

   like:   struct varlen {
               int    vl_len;
               ....(gap about 4 bytes);
               char vl_dat[1];
           }

what are those 4 bytes for ?

Thanks in advance.

-mike

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