This page:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/wal-reliability.html
says:
"Data pages are not currently checksummed, though full page images
recorded in WAL records will be protected. Data pages have a 16-bit
field available for future use with a data page checksum feature."
Patch with correction suggestion attached.
Regards
Ian Barwick
On 27 August 2013 05:31, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com> wrote:
> This page:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/wal-reliability.html
>
> says:
>
> "Data pages are not currently checksummed, though full page images
> recorded in WAL records will be protected. Data pages have a 16-bit
> field available for future use with a data page checksum feature."
>
> Patch with correction suggestion attached.
Thanks Ian, well spotted.
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:31:45PM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> This page:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/wal-reliability.html
>
> says:
>
> "Data pages are not currently checksummed, though full page images
> recorded in WAL records will be protected. Data pages have a 16-bit
> field available for future use with a data page checksum feature."
>
> Patch with correction suggestion attached.
Modified patch attached and applied. Backpatched to 9.3. Thanks. I
removed the mention of 9.3 because that looks odd after a few releases.
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