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Re: page corruption on 8.3+ that makes it to standby

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-07-29T08:58:24Z
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On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 14:22 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > So nevermind that distraction.  I'm back to thinking that fix1 is
> > the way to go.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> It's uncontroversial to have a simple guard against corrupting an
> uninitialized page, and uncontroversial is good for things that will be
> back-patched.

Still don't understand why we would not initialize such pages. If we're
copying a relation we must know enough about it to init a page.

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