Re: XLogBeginRead's header comment lies

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:31 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:18 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:28 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Yeah I think it makes sense to make it work as per the comment in
> > XLogBeginRecord().  I think if we modify the Assert as per the comment
> > of XLogBeginRecord() then the remaining code of the
> > XLogDecodeNextRecord() is capable enough to take care of skipping the
> > page header if we are pointing at the beginning of the block.
> >
> > See attached patch.
> >
>
> I think that is not sufficient, if there is a record continuing from
> the previous page and we are pointing to the start of the page then
> this assertion is not sufficient.  I think if the
> targetRecOff is zero then we should additionally read the header and
> verify that XLP_FIRST_IS_CONTRECORD is not set.

Thinking again, there is already a code in XLogDecodeNextRecord() to
error out if XLP_FIRST_IS_CONTRECORD is set so probably we don't need
to do anything else and the previous patch with modified assert should
just work fine?

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Dilip Kumar
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