* Zdenek Kotala wrote: > Karsten Desler wrote: > > > >I don't know much about the postgres architecture and I don't know if > >bounds > >checking on-disk values on a read makes a lot of sense since usually one > >should be able to assume that there are no randomly flipped bits; but it > >would've been nice to have a sensible log entry as to what really > >happened. > > I attached backported patch from head to 8.2. You can try it. It has small > performance penalty, but it does not crash on corrupted data.
Thank you very much! I have restored a backup of the corrupt postgres data files on a second server and I can confirm that postmaster no longer crashes with the patch applied. Thanks, Karsten -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs