Re: Protecting against unexpected zero-pages: proposal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Protecting against unexpected zero-pages: proposal
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Msg-id AANLkTin+ku5XCVn80ceO7marozf3Qenb9PHGBCe4QJM1@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Protecting against unexpected zero-pages: proposal  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> So maybe Aidan's got a good idea here.  It would sure be a lot easier
> to shoehorn checksum checking in as an optional feature if the checksums
> were kept someplace else.

Would it? I thought the only problem was the hint bits being set
behind the checksummers back. That'll still happen even if it's
written to a different place.



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greg


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