Since the direct I/O commit went in, buildfarm animals curculio and morepork have been issuing warnings like
hashpage.c: In function '_hash_expandtable': hashpage.c:995: warning: ignoring alignment for stack allocated 'zerobuf' in places where there's a local variable of type PGIOAlignedBlock or PGAlignedXLogBlock. I'm not sure why only those two animals are unhappy, but I think they have a point: typical ABIs don't guarantee alignment of function stack frames to better than 16 bytes or so. In principle the compiler could support a 4K alignment request anyway by doing the equivalent of alloca(3), but I do not think we can count on that to happen. regards, tom lane