Re: corrupt pages detected by enabling checksums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: corrupt pages detected by enabling checksums
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Msg-id CA+TgmobFO+QntNetiun0xw03p8AyX1Ne8CDUGcOT3MNW1-3grw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: corrupt pages detected by enabling checksums  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> But based on your description, perhaps refusing to automatically restart and
> forcing an explicit decision would happen a lot more often, during normal
> crashes with no corruption, than I was thinking it would.

I bet it would.  But I think Greg Stark's idea of periodically
flushing the current minimum recovery point to disk has a lot to
recommend it.  That would be massively more reliable than what we have
now.

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Robert Haas
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