Re: Online verification of checksums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Online verification of checksums
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYb4MOdiyda2E8yJm40nhyFarVkRdS7R3enTbNuwTtigw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Online verification of checksums  (Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>)
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Re: Online verification of checksums
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:37 AM Michael Banck
<michael.banck@credativ.de> wrote:
> I have added a retry for this as well now, without a pg_sleep() as well.
> This catches around 80% of the half-reads, but a few slip through. At
> that point we bail out with exit(1), and the user can try again, which I
> think is fine?

Maybe I'm confused here, but catching 80% of torn pages doesn't sound
robust at all.

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Robert Haas
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