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

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 5:37 PM Andres Freund  wrote:
> What's gained by the logic of emitting that warning in VACUUM after a
> crash? I don't really see any robustness advantages in it.  If the logic
> were that we'd never reuse empty pages because they can hide corruption
> that normally would discovered by checksums, then we shouldn't
> reinitialize them at all and instead error out hard - but we can't do
> that, because it's normal that they occur.  Right now we have empty
> pages on-disk whenever a busy server is restarted in immediate mode,
> after all.

I don't know.  I am just normally reluctant to change things
precipitously that are of long tenure.

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