Re: Updating FSM on recovery

Tom Lane wrote:
> As far as the ugliness in XLogRecordPageWithFreeSpace goes: couldn't you
> just call XLogReadBufferWithFork with init = true, and then initialize
> the page if PageIsNew?

With init=true, we don't even try to read the page from the disk (since 
8.3), so all FSM pages accessed during recovery would be zeroed out. I 
don't think that's what you intended.

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