Re: Subtle bug in "Simplify tape block format" commit

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Subtle bug in "Simplify tape block format" commit
Date: 2017-01-30 18:01:12
Message-ID: CAH2-Wzkkb-zQGbVnSChT96+9HUiz1P3y+isxdHMOrm3z2VrGUA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> It won't make any difference for correctness what bit pattern you write to
> "fill the hole", but you have to write something, and zeros seems like a
> natural choice.

Ah, okay. That's probably fine, then.

Let me take another look at this later today before proceeding. I want
to run it against a custom test suite I've developed.

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Peter Geoghegan

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