Re: storing an explicit nonce

On Thu, Oct  7, 2021 at 12:32:16PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 12:26 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > We rely on it today, e.g. for the control file.
> 
> I think that's the only place, though. We can't rely on it for data
> files because base backups don't go through shared buffers, so reads
> and writes can get torn in memory and not just on sector boundaries.

Uh, do backups get torn and later used?

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