On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Could you expand on that? Are you envisioning an option to > ReadBufferExtended()? Because that's certainly not what I'm thinking of > - it seems dangerous to populate shared buffers with an invalid > page. Therefore I was more thinking to falling back to smgrread() or > such.
I'm not envisaging anything specific just yet. It would be nice if amcheck had an option that bypassed shared_buffers, because users want that. That's all. -- Peter Geoghegan