On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > * Aidan Van Dyk (ai...@highrise.ca) wrote: >> But the scary part is you don't know how long *ago* the crash was. >> Because a hint-bit-only change w/ a torn-page is a "non event" in >> PostgreSQL *DESIGN*, on crash recovery, it doesn't do anything to try >> and "scrub" every page in the database. > > Fair enough, but, could we distinguish these two cases? In other words, > would it be possible to detect if a page was torn due to a 'traditional' > crash and not complain in that case, but complain if there's a CRC > failure and it *doesn't* look like a torn page?
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