Idea: Tell compiler palloc() et al return aligned values

Hi,

Just saw a fair amount of memset/memcpy in a profile, with the symbol
name indicating that the compiler assumes the data is unaligned. After
pondering it for a few moments, that's not too surprising: Even if the
memory is allocated in the same place, the compiler has no way knowing
that palloc et al always return aligned memory.

Seems like a good idea to replace palloc et al with a macro that does
__builtin_assume_aligned(real_palloc(), 8) or such.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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