Re: Block-level CRC checks

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>> >> Alvaro, have you given up on the patch or are you just busy on
>> >> something else at the moment?
>> >
>> > I've given up until we find a good way to handle hint bits.  Various
>> > schemes have been proposed but they all have more or less fatal flaws.
>>
>> Agreed.  Though, I don't want to see this patch get dropped from 8.4.
>>
>> ALL, Alvaro has tried a couple different methods, does anyone have any
>> other ideas?
>
> Feature freeze is not the time to be looking for new ideas.  I suggest
> we save this for 8.5.

Well, we may not need a new idea.  Currently, the problem I see with
the checkpoint-at-shutdown looks like it could possibly be easily
solved.  Though, there may be other issues I'm not familiar with.  Has
anyone reviewed this yet?

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