Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
>> By the way, do you need CRC as a first page member? Is it for future development
>> like CLOG integration into buffers? Why not put it on the end as and mark it as
>> a special? It will reduce space requirement when CRC is not enabled.
>
> ... and make life tremendously more complex for indexes,
Indexes uses PageGetSpecial macro and they live with them and PageInit could do correct placement. Only problem are
assertmacros and extra check which
verifies correct size of special.
> plus turning
> CRC checking on or off on-the-fly would be problematic.
Yeah, it is problem.
> I think Alvaro
> has the right idea: just put the field there all the time.
Agree.
Zdenek
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