Alvaro Herrera wrote: > The "other hint bits" are: > > - LP_DEAD as used by the various callers of ItemIdMarkDead. > - PD_PAGE_FULL > - BTPageOpaque->btpo_flags and btpo_cycleid > > All of them are changed with only SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave being > called afterwards.
I think we could get away with WAL-logging LP_DEAD via ItemIdMarkDead similar to what is done to SetHintBits in the posted patch, and cope with the rest by marking the page with the invalid checksum; they are not so frequent anyway so the reliability loss is low. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
