| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Andrew Chernow" <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, "Aidan Van Dyk" <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Pg Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Block-level CRC checks |
| Date: | 2008-10-02 14:30:17 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920810020730s577cdf8dpd52af8e1fcde5842@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> Ideally, though we don't have any spare bits to play with in MAXALIGN=4.
>
> In the page header? There's plenty of free bits in pd_flags.
Ahh, didn't see that. Good catch!
> But isn't it a bit dangerous to have a single flag on the page indicating
> whether the CRC is valid or not? Any corruption that flips that bit would
> make the CRC check to be skipped.
Agreed.
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Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
myYearbook.com
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