Re: How much do the hint bits help? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: How much do the hint bits help?
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Msg-id 4D121B1D.6030503@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: How much do the hint bits help?  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On 22.12.2010 17:31, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 17:01 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Do you envision that the CRC is calculated at every update, or only when
>> a page is written out from the buffer cache?
>
> At every update, so there is a clear assertion that the CRC matches the
> block.

Umm, when do you check the CRC? Every time the page is locked? Every 
time it's updated? If don't verify the CRC, what is it good for?

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


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