RE: heap page corruption not easy

From: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
To: "'Hiroshi Inoue'" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: "'Zeugswetter Andreas SB'" <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: heap page corruption not easy
Date: 2000-12-19 23:48:14
Message-ID: 8F4C99C66D04D4118F580090272A7A234D3204@sectorbase1.sectorbase.com
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> > > The point is, that the heap page is only modified in
> > > places that were previously empty (except header).
> > > All previous row data stays exactly in the same place.
> > > Thus if a page is only partly written
> > > (any order of page segments) only a new row is affected.
> >
> > Exception: PageRepairFragmentation() and PageIndexTupleDelete() are
> > called during vacuum - they change layout of tuples.
> >
>
> Is it guaranteed that the result of PageRepairFragmentation()
> has already been written to disk when tuple movement is logged ?

No.

Vadim

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