Page-level version upgrade (was: Block-level CRC checks) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Dec 1, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> The bottom line here seems to be that the only practical way to do
> anything like this is to move the hint bits into their own area of
> the page, and then exclude them from the CRC.  Are we prepared to
> once again blow off any hope of in-place update for another release
> cycle?


What happened to the work that was being done to allow a page to be  
upgraded on the fly when it was read in from disk?
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