Re: Why are we PageInit'ing buffers in RelationAddExtraBlocks()?

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 3:39 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Thinking about whether it's worth to allow to extend that function in an
> extensible manner made me wonder:  Is it actually a good idea to
> initialize the page at that point, including marking it dirty?

As far as I can recall, my motivation was to avoid increasing the
number of warnings produced by VACUUM.  If those warnings are going
away, then I don't know that there's any reason to keep that code as
it is.  But I am not sure whether such a move would provoke any
opposition.

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