Dept. of second thoughts: add comments cautioning against using

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 63735ca815772becf2c171df7f21ae8a49101115
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2007-05-02T23:34:48Z
Releases: 8.3.0
Dept. of second thoughts: add comments cautioning against using
ReadOrZeroBuffer to fetch pages from beyond physical EOF.  This would
usually work, but would cause problems for md.c if writes occurred
beyond a segment boundary when the previous segment file hadn't been
fully extended.

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src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c modified +7 −2