Re: WAL consistency check facility

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: WAL consistency check facility
Date: 2016-11-03 09:22:58
Message-ID: CAB7nPqS56Yc+be5pMe+_8UPyJQscUOZ1+yDFwApvuN4O+hyxfg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Actually, I just verified that bimg_info is not even valid if
> has_image is not set.
> In DecodeXLogRecord, we initialize bimg_info only when has_image flag
> is set. So, keeping them
> separate doesn't look a good approach to me. If we keep them separate,
> the output
> of the following assert is undefined:
> Assert(XLogRecHasBlockImage(record, block_id) ||
> !XLogRecBlockImageApply(record, block_id)).
>
> Thoughts??

Yes, that's exactly the reason why we should keep both macros as
checking for separate things: apply implies that has_image is set and
that's normal, hence we could use sanity checks by just using those
macros and not propagating xlogreader.h.
--
Michael

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