Don't call PageGetSpecialPointer() on page until it's been initialized.

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: 7dc721889b31450cad338a189a97ff0ff46534d5
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2015-06-30T10:45:00Z
Releases: 9.4.5
Don't call PageGetSpecialPointer() on page until it's been initialized.

After calling XLogInitBufferForRedo(), the page might be all-zeros if it was
not in page cache already. btree_xlog_unlink_page initialized the page
correctly, but it called PageGetSpecialPointer before initializing it, which
would lead to a corrupt page at WAL replay, if the unlinked page is not in
page cache.

Backpatch to 9.4, the bug came with the rewrite of B-tree page deletion.

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src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtxlog.c modified +2 −1