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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Block-level CRC checks
Date
Msg-id 20081112142815.GD4535@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Block-level CRC checks  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Block-level CRC checks  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > However, your idea suggests something else that we could do to improve
> > the patch: skip the ItemId->lp_flags during the CRC calculation.  This
> > would mean we wouldn't need to WAL-log those.
> 
> What!?  In most cases those bits are critical data, not hints.

In most cases; but LP_DEAD is used as a hint sometimes which is causing
me some grief ...

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