Re: pageinspect get_raw_page() option to return invalid pages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Could you expand on that? Are you envisioning an option to
> ReadBufferExtended()? Because that's certainly not what I'm thinking of
> - it seems dangerous to populate shared buffers with an invalid
> page. Therefore I was more thinking to falling back to smgrread() or
> such.

I'm not envisaging anything specific just yet. It would be nice if
amcheck had an option that bypassed shared_buffers, because users want
that. That's all.

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Peter Geoghegan