Re: BUG #17928: Standby fails to decode WAL on termination of primary

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 2:08 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> It seems to me that we should try to also finish the header validation
> before attempting XLogReadRecordAlloc() on the total_len as well?  It
> looks like the end result would be to move the first ReadPageInternal
> done for the header with all its cross-page checks before
> XLogReadRecordAlloc().  That should remove the need of having
> gotheader from v1.

Yeah.  Trying out an idea for how to untangle that...