| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Trevor Talbot" <quension(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Albe Laurenz" <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Undetected corruption of table files |
| Date: | 2007-08-27 16:08:17 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920708270908y73bf818xf412ca31f57dd2b1@mail.gmail.com |
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On 8/27/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Indeed. In fact, the most likely implementation of this (refuse to do
> anything with a page with a bad CRC) would be a net loss from that
> standpoint, because you couldn't get *any* data out of a page, even if
> only part of it had been zapped.
At least you would know it was corrupted, instead of getting funky
errors and/or crashes.
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