Re: Proposal: Integrity check - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proposal: Integrity check
Date
Msg-id 15152.1201292638@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Proposal: Integrity check  ("Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <Andreas.Zeugswetter@s-itsolutions.at>)
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"Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <Andreas.Zeugswetter@s-itsolutions.at> writes:
>> We're already assuming that; otherwise base backups for PITR 
>> don't work.

> I think we could, but iirc we did not. We do not need that assumption if
> you don't 
> turn off fullpage writes.

Oh, I had forgotten that RestoreBkpBlocks restores unconditionally.
Good point.

It's still the case that there's no need to allow pages into shared
buffers that don't pass the header-is-valid checks.  If they don't
pass, then there's no way that bufmgr has a conflicting copy.
        regards, tom lane


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