Re: (ITS#7589) MDB nodesize issues

[hyc@symas.com]

Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote:
  "Non-LEAF2 nodes are
> even-sized" feels like a deeply embedded assumption, but I haven't
> really looked.

Explicitly documented:

     /** Header for a single key/data pair within a page.
      * We guarantee 2-byte alignment for nodes.
      */
typedef struct MDB_node {

Obviously you cannot guarantee 2-byte alignment unless nodes are always even 
sized.
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