Re: Block-level CRC checks

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Please, DO NOT MOVE position of page version in PageHeader structure! And
>>> PG_PAGE_LAYOUT_VERSION should be bump to 5.
>
>> Umm, any in-place upgrade should be capable of handling changes to the
>> page header.
>
> Well, yeah, but it has to be able to tell which version it's dealing
> with. I quite agree with Zdenek that keeping the version indicator
> in a fixed location is appropriate.

Most of the other databases I've worked, which don't have different
types of pages, put the page version as the first element of the page.
That would let us put the crc right after it. Thoughts?

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