On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 09:11:26AM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 21/11/2020 21:32, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> This is pretty unhelpful; it would be better not to try to print the
>> data instead of dying.  With that, at least you can know where the
>> problem is.
>> 
>> This was introduced in d6061f83a166 (2015).  Proposed patch to fix it
>> (by having the code print a null "data" instead of dying) is attached.
> 
> Null seems misleading. Maybe something like "invalid", or print a warning?

How did you get into this state to begin with?  get_raw_page() uses
ReadBufferExtended() which gives some level of protection already, so
shouldn't it be better to return an ERROR with ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED
and the block involved?
--
Michael

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