During WAL recovery, when reading a page that we intend to overwrite completely

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

Commit: 8c3cc86e7b688b0efe5ec6ce4f4342c2883b1db5
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2007-05-02T23:18:03Z
Releases: 8.3.0
During WAL recovery, when reading a page that we intend to overwrite completely
from the WAL data, don't bother to physically read it; just have bufmgr.c
return a zeroed-out buffer instead.  This speeds recovery significantly,
and also avoids unnecessary failures when a page-to-be-overwritten has corrupt
page headers on disk.  This replaces a former kluge that accomplished the
latter by pretending zero_damaged_pages was always ON during WAL recovery;
which was OK when the kluge was put in, but is unsafe when restoring a WAL
log that was written with full_page_writes off.

Heikki Linnakangas

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