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

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-07-29T15:09:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Here's a version of Jeff's fix1 patch (with a trivial change to the
> comment) that applies to HEAD, REL9_0_STABLE, REL8_4_STABLE, and
> REL8_3_STABLE; a slightly modified version that applies to
> REL8_2_STABLE; and another slightly modified version that applies to
> REL8_1_STABLE and REL8_0_STABLE.  REL7_4_STABLE doesn't have
> tablespaces, so the problem can't manifest there, I think.

Looks sane to the eyeball.  I'm not sure if the oldest versions have the
same page-read-time header sanity checks that we have now, so it may be
that there is not a need for this patch all the way back; but it can't
hurt anything.

> I'm currently compiling and testing all of these.  When that's done,
> should I go ahead and check this in, or wait until after beta4 wraps?

Go ahead and commit, please.

			regards, tom lane