On 2015-07-02 23:43:17 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > >You'd need, afaics, a bgworker that connects to every database to read > >pg_class, to figure out what type of page a relfilenode has. And this > >probably should call back into the relevant AM or such. > > Nah, we already assume that every relation data file follows the standard > page format, at least enough to have the checksum field at the right > location. See FlushBuffer() - it just unconditionally calculates the > checksum before writing out the page. (I'm not totally happy about that, but > that ship has sailed)
Ugh, I'd forgotten about that. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
