On 2013-11-19 10:27:30 -0800, Christophe Pettus wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > I am not sure how much code it's going to take (I'd hope somewhat less),
> > but it certainly will take some time to agree how it should be built and
> > then building and integrating it.
>
> Given that the situation we're in right now is that we have an unknown
> number of silently corrupt secondaries out there which will only be
> discovered when someone promotes them to being a primary (possibly
> because the current primary died without a backup), I'd say that this
> is something pretty urgent.
It's pretty unlikely that any automated testing would have cought this,
the required conditions are too unlikely for that.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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