On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Alexander Korotkov
<a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> The aspect I'm more concerned here about is whether we miss ability
> for detecting some of IO errors, if we don't distinguish new pages
> from pages whose tuples were removed by vacuum.
My main concern is correctness. If we ever have valid-looking buffers
in shared_buffers after the corresponding data has been truncated away
on disk, we've got to make sure that nobody ever confuses one of them
with an actually-valid buffer. Reading over your algorithm, I can't
convince myself that you have that case nailed down tightly enough.
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