Re: Detecting corrupted pages earlier - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Curt Sampson
Subject Re: Detecting corrupted pages earlier
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Msg-id Pine.NEB.4.51.0302181207160.452@angelic-vtfw.cvpn.cynic.net
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In response to Detecting corrupted pages earlier  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Detecting corrupted pages earlier  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Postgres has a bad habit of becoming very confused if the page header of
> a page on disk has become corrupted.

What typically causes this corruption?

If it's any kind of a serious problem, maybe it would be worth keeping
a CRC of the header at the end of the page somewhere.

cjs
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