Re: pgsql: Revert online data checksum transitions

From: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Masao Fujii <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Revert online data checksum transitions
Date: 2026-09-16 17:33:57
Message-ID: CAOYmi+=-_he-goOPnhabE6Gs=m5gQ_tj_T=PWwcd_Tgo4ZKSGQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> However, what I'm seeing as I trace through the crash on
> longfin is that nulls[19] has a value that's not either 0 or 1 (not
> too surprising), and somehow heap_compute_data_size is interpreting
> that as "true" while fill_val is reading it as "false". According
> to my understanding of the C standard, fill_val is in the wrong here.

Is the _Bool representation allowed to contain anything but zero/false
or one/true? I thought that was undefined behavior. (IIRC, mixing C++
bool with our C89-era bool definition suffered from similar UB
excitement.)

--Jacob

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