On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Ants Aasma <a...@cybertec.at> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> wrote: >> So either the CRC32-C polynomial isn't irreducible, or there something >> fishy going on. Could there be a bug in your CRC implementation? Maybe >> a mixup between big and little endian, or something like that? > > I'm suspecting an implementation bug myself. I already checked the > test harness and that was all sane, compiler hadn't taken any > unforgivable liberties there. I will crosscheck the output with other > implementations to verify that the checksum is implemented correctly.
Looks like the implementation is correct. I cross-referenced it against a bitwise algorithm for crc32 with the castagnoli polynomial. This also rules out any endianness issues as the bitwise variant consumes input byte at a time. What ever it is, it is something specific to PostgreSQL page layout. If I use /dev/urandom as the source the issue disappears. So much for CRC32 being proven good. Regards, Ants Aasma -- Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH Gröhrmühlgasse 26 A-2700 Wiener Neustadt Web: http://www.postgresql-support.de -- Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH Gröhrmühlgasse 26 A-2700 Wiener Neustadt Web: http://www.postgresql-support.de -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
