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

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Block-level CRC checks
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Msg-id 48E4DA43.7020703@enterprisedb.com
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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 wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com> wrote:
>> Would it not be better to add a boolean bit or byte to inidcate the crc
>> state?
> 
> Ideally, though we don't have any spare bits to play with in MAXALIGN=4.

In the page header? There's plenty of free bits in pd_flags.

But isn't it a bit dangerous to have a single flag on the page 
indicating whether the CRC is valid or not? Any corruption that flips 
that bit would make the CRC check to be skipped.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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