Re: better page-level checksums

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: better page-level checksums
Date: 2022-06-09 21:35:30
Message-ID: CAH2-WzndtjJazjfNxUQXgzDK1hMOCh2gavYxS7i_hr=oTA1L_w@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 2:33 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> My preference is for an approach that builds on that, or at least
> doesn't significantly complicate it. So a cryptographic hash or nonce
> can go in the special area proper (structs like BTPageOpaqueData don't
> need any changes), but at a page offset before the special area proper
> -- not after.

Minor correction: I meant "before structs like BTPageOpaqueData,
earlier in the page and in the special area proper".

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Peter Geoghegan

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