Re: How much do the hint bits help?

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How much do the hint bits help?
Date: 2010-12-22 15:37:01
Message-ID: 4D121B1D.6030503@enterprisedb.com
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On 22.12.2010 17:31, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 17:01 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Do you envision that the CRC is calculated at every update, or only when
>> a page is written out from the buffer cache?
>
> At every update, so there is a clear assertion that the CRC matches the
> block.

Umm, when do you check the CRC? Every time the page is locked? Every
time it's updated? If don't verify the CRC, what is it good for?

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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