Re: Protecting against unexpected zero-pages: proposal

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Though incidentally all of the other items you mentioned are generic
>> problems caused by with MVCC, not hint bits.

> Yes, but the hint bits prevent us from implementing workarounds.

If we got rid of hint bits, we'd need workarounds for the ensuing
massive performance loss.  There is no reason whatsoever to imagine
that we'd come out ahead in the end.

			regards, tom lane