On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, an enum would be nicer than an additional GUC. I kinda keep forgetting
>> that we have those. Though to bikeshed, the GUC should probably be just 
>> called
>> 'zero_pages' and take the values 'never', 'missing', 'unreadable' ;-)
>
> Sounds reasonable to me ..

It seems like it would be nicer to have a setting that somehow makes
the system disregard errors and soldier on rather than actively
destroying your data.  Not that I have an exact design in mind, but
zero_damaged_pages is a really fast way to destroy your data.

-- 
Robert Haas
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