Re: Block-level CRC checks

Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:26 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > Apparently the only solution in sight is to WAL-log hint bits. Simon
> > opines it would be horrible from a performance standpoint to WAL-log
> > every hint bit set, and I think we all agree with that. So we need to
> > find an alternative mechanism to WAL log hint bits.
>
> Yes, it's clearly not acceptable bit by bit.
>
> But perhaps writing a single WAL record if you scan whole page and set
> all bits at once. Then it makes sense in some cases.

Yeah, I thought about that too -- and perhaps give the scan some slop,
so that it will also updates some more hint bits that would be updated
in the next, say, 100 transactions. However this seems more messy than
the other idea.

> It might be possible to have a partial solution where some blocks have
> CRC checks, some not.

That's another idea but it reduces the effectiveness of the check.

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