On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> I was thinking that we would warn when such was found, set hint bits
> as needed, and rewrite with the new CRC. In the unlikely event that
> it was a torn hint-bit-only page update, it would be a warning about
> something which is a benign side-effect of the OS or hardware crash.
But that's terrible. Surely you don't want to tell people:
WARNING: Your database is corrupted, or maybe not. But don't worry,
I modified the data block so that you won't get this warning again.
OK, I guess I'm not sure that you don't want to tell people that. But
*I* don't!
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