Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If we were sure that the kernel error was permanent, then this argument
>> would be moot: the data is gone already. The scary thought here is that
>> it might be a transient error, such as a not-always-repeatable kernel
>> bug. In that case, zeroing the page would indeed lose data that had
>> been recoverable before.
> Yeah, and in fact I think that's probably not a terribly remote
> scenario. Also, if you're running on dying hardware, you really do
> NOT want to force the kernel to write a whole bunch of pages back to
> the dying disk in the midst of trying to pg_dump it before it falls
> over. You just want to read what you can of what's there now.
Hm? zero_damaged_pages doesn't cause the buffer to be marked dirty,
so I dunno where these alleged writes are coming from.
regards, tom lane
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