Re: Strengthen pg_waldump's --save-fullpage tests - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 10:14 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 07:17:47PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> > Note that the raw page on the table might differ not just in page LSN
> > but also in other fields, for instance see heap_mask for instance. It
> > masks lsn, checksum, hint bits, unused space etc. before verifying FPI
> > consistency during recovery in
> > verifyBackupPageConsistency().
>
> FWIW, I don't really want to enter in this business here.  That feels
> like a good addition of technical debt compared to the potential
> gain.

I couldn't agree more.

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Bharath Rupireddy
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