Re: Alignment padding bytes in arrays vs the planner

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> Any ideas about better answers?

Seems like you covered it - anything other than memcmp() is going 
to require a lot of brainz and have lots of sharp edges.

> But this example shows that we'd really have to enforce the rule 
> of "no ill-defined bytes" for just about every user-callable 
> function's results, which is a pretty ugly prospect.

Why is that so ugly? Seems the most logical route. And even if 
we don't get all of them right away (e.g. not 'enforced' right 
away), we're no worse off than we are now, but we don't have to 
dive into retraining equal() or touch any other parts of the code.

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