Re: heap page corruption not easy

From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
Cc: "'Zeugswetter Andreas SB'" <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: heap page corruption not easy
Date: 2000-12-19 00:58:03
Message-ID: 3A3EB29B.AAAD7E3D@tpf.co.jp
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"Mikheev, Vadim" wrote:
>
> > The point is, that the heap page is only modified in places that were
> > previously empty (except header). All previous row data stays exactly
> > in the same place. Thus if a page is only partly written
> > (any order of page segments) only a new row is affected.
>
> Exception: PageRepairFragmentation() and PageIndexTupleDelete() are
> called during vacuum - they change layout of tuples.
>

Is it guaranteed that the result of PageRepairFragmentation()
has already been written to disk when tuple movement is logged ?

Regards.
Hiroshi Inoue

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