Re: page corruption on 8.3+ that makes it to standby

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: page corruption on 8.3+ that makes it to standby
Date: 2010-07-28 19:09:36
Message-ID: AANLkTikZBEs2evBXgyo4D7L82K7U02ULBymEFLZNmtk6@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 14:50 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> It seems like if log_newpage() were to set the LSN/TLI before calling
>> XLogInsert() - or optionally not - then it wouldn't be necessary to
>> set them also in heap_xlog_newpage(); the memcpy operation would by
>> definition have copied the right information onto the page.  That
>> seems like it would be a cleaner design, but back-patching a change to
>> the interpretation of WAL records that might already be on someone's
>> disk seems dicey at best.
>
> How do you set the LSN before XLogInsert()?

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