Re: page corruption on 8.3+ that makes it to standby - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: page corruption on 8.3+ that makes it to standby
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Msg-id 1280344082.30611.0.camel@jdavis-ux.asterdata.local
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In response to Re: page corruption on 8.3+ that makes it to standby  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: page corruption on 8.3+ that makes it to standby
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On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 14:50 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> It seems like if log_newpage() were to set the LSN/TLI before calling
> XLogInsert() - or optionally not - then it wouldn't be necessary to
> set them also in heap_xlog_newpage(); the memcpy operation would by
> definition have copied the right information onto the page.  That
> seems like it would be a cleaner design, but back-patching a change to
> the interpretation of WAL records that might already be on someone's
> disk seems dicey at best.

How do you set the LSN before XLogInsert()?

Regards,Jeff Davis



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