Re: Block-level CRC checks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Block-level CRC checks
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Msg-id 15357.1225380427@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Block-level CRC checks  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
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"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Well, yeah, but it has to be able to tell which version it's dealing
>> with.  I quite agree with Zdenek that keeping the version indicator
>> in a fixed location is appropriate.

> Most of the other databases I've worked, which don't have different
> types of pages, put the page version as the first element of the page.
>  That would let us put the crc right after it.  Thoughts?

"Fixed location" does not mean "let's move it".
        regards, tom lane


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