Re: Block-level CRC checks

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Ideally, though we don't have any spare bits to play with in MAXALIGN=4.
>
> In the page header? There's plenty of free bits in pd_flags.

Ahh, didn't see that.  Good catch!

> But isn't it a bit dangerous to have a single flag on the page indicating
> whether the CRC is valid or not? Any corruption that flips that bit would
> make the CRC check to be skipped.

Agreed.

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