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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Block-level CRC checks
Date
Msg-id 20081030151121.GC3857@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Block-level CRC checks  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
Responses Re: Block-level CRC checks
Re: Block-level CRC checks
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Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera napsal(a):
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>
>>> But perhaps writing a single WAL record if you scan whole page and set
>>> all bits at once. Then it makes sense in some cases.
>>
>> So this is what I ended up doing; attached.
>
> Please, DO NOT MOVE position of page version in PageHeader structure!

Hmm.  The only way I see we could do that is to modify the checksum
struct member to a predefined value before calculating the page's
checksum.

Ah, actually there's another alternative -- leave the checksum on its
current position (start of struct) and move other members below
pg_pagesize_version (leaning towards pd_tli and pd_flags).  That'd leave
the page version in the same position.

(Hmm, maybe it's better to move pd_lower and pd_upper?)

> And PG_PAGE_LAYOUT_VERSION should be bump to 5.

Easily done; thanks for the reminder.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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