On May 25, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote:
> Here's how this works out during replay:
> 
> a) You start WAL replay from the latest checkpoint's Redo-pointer.
> 
> When you see a WAL record that's been marked with XLR_FPW_SKIPPED, don't 
> replay that record at all. It's OK because we know that there will be a 
> separate record containing the full-page image of the page later in the 
> stream.

I don't think we know that. The server might have crashed before that second 
record got generated.  (This appears to be an unfixable flaw in this proposal.)

...Robert

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