Re: Block-level CRC checks

Gregory Stark wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >
> >> The "other hint bits" are:
> >>
> >> - LP_DEAD as used by the various callers of ItemIdMarkDead.
> >> - PD_PAGE_FULL
> >> - BTPageOpaque->btpo_flags and btpo_cycleid
> >>
> >> All of them are changed with only SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave being
> >> called afterwards.
> >
> > I think we could get away with WAL-logging LP_DEAD via ItemIdMarkDead
> > similar to what is done to SetHintBits in the posted patch, and cope
> > with the rest by marking the page with the invalid checksum; they are
> > not so frequent anyway so the reliability loss is low.
>
> If PD_PAGE_FULL is set and that causes the crc to be set to the invalid sum
> will we ever get another chance to set it?

I should have qualified that a bit more. It's not setting PD_FULL
that's not logged, but clearing it (heap_prune_page, line 282). It's
set in heap_update.

Hmm, oh I see another problem here -- the bit is not restored when
replayed heap_update's WAL record. I'm now wondering what other bits
are set without much care about correctly restoring them during replay.

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