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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: fallocate / posix_fallocate for new WAL file creation (etc...)
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In response to Re: fallocate / posix_fallocate for new WAL file creation (etc...)  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 5/30/13 8:02 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> If there's some OS out
> there that chooses to fill the pre-extended pages with 0x55 or cat
> /dev/urandom instead of 0x00, they probably deserve what they get.

Even that wouldn't be a problem for our purpose.  The only problem would
be if you can't read from the allocated region at all.

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