pgsql: Protect against torn pages when deleting GIN list pages. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Protect against torn pages when deleting GIN list pages.

To-be-deleted list pages contain no useful information, as they are being
deleted, but we must still protect the writes from being torn by a crash
after a partial write. To do that, re-initialize the pages on WAL replay.

Jeff Janes caught this with a test program to test partial writes.
Backpatch to all supported versions.

Branch
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REL8_4_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/be7830596f333b70243661b70e09a783ed57b497

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c |   27 +++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)