On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Kevin Grittner
<kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> I was thinking that we would warn when such was found, set hint bits
> as needed, and rewrite with the new CRC.  In the unlikely event that
> it was a torn hint-bit-only page update, it would be a warning about
> something which is a benign side-effect of the OS or hardware crash.

But that's terrible.  Surely you don't want to tell people:

WARNING:  Your database is corrupted, or maybe not.  But don't worry,
I modified the data block so that you won't get this warning again.

OK, I guess I'm not sure that you don't want to tell people that.  But
*I* don't!

-- 
Robert Haas
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