On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 07:08:56 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 06:38:44 PM Kevin Grittner wrote: > >> What would you want the server to do when a page with a mismatching > >> checksum is read? > > > > Follow the behaviour of zero_damaged_pages. > > Surely not. Nobody runs with zero_damaged_pages turned on in > production; or at least, nobody with any semblance of a clue. Thats my point. There is no automated solution for page errors. So it should ERROR (not PANIC) out in normal operation and be "fixable" via zero_damaged_pages. I personally wouldn't even have a problem making zero_damaged_pages only applicable in single backend mode.
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