Re: Trying to break online checksums with LLMs

From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, rmt(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Trying to break online checksums with LLMs
Date: 2026-09-15 04:24:49
Message-ID: CAAc5aFM0duTw1=9PzpqjkNt+YmFiNEUB02_+86q+PTiXSbgR+Q@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> But it might be hard to
> tell the difference between a file that corresponds to nothing we saw
> in pg_class because it's orphaned and a file that corresponds to
> nothing we saw in pg_class because it was concurrently created and the
> pg_class entry isn't yet visible to us. And, in the latter case,
> skipping locking would probably be bad for all the same reasons it
> would be bad to do that in general. But if you can find some way to
> distinguish those cases reliably, then I think this might be a robust
> fix.

pg_orphaned ([1]) is using a dirty snapshot while looking for the
relfilnode(s) in
pg_class to distinguish those cases. Maybe we could do the same here?

[1]: https://github.com/bdrouvot/pg_orphaned

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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