Re: [patch] Fix checksum verification in base backups for zero page headers

On 26.10.2020 04:13, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 08:00:08AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Yeah, we could try to make the logic a bit more complicated like
>> that. However, for any code path relying on a page read without any
>> locking insurance, we cannot really have a lot of trust in any of the
>> fields assigned to the page as this could just be random corruption
>> garbage, and the only thing I am ready to trust here a checksum
>> mismatch check, because that's the only field on the page that's
>> linked to its full contents on the 8k page. This also keeps the code
>> simpler.
> A small update here. I have extracted the refactored part for
> PageIsVerified() and committed it as that's independently useful.
> This makes the patch proposed here simpler on HEAD, leading to the
> attached.
> --
> Michael

Thank you for committing the first part.

In case you need a second opinion on the remaining patch, it still looks
good to me.

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