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From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files  (Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>)
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On 8/27/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Indeed.  In fact, the most likely implementation of this (refuse to do
> anything with a page with a bad CRC) would be a net loss from that
> standpoint, because you couldn't get *any* data out of a page, even if
> only part of it had been zapped.

At least you would know it was corrupted, instead of getting funky
errors and/or crashes.

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