mainline XLOG replay. Shouldn't generic_xlog.c take the same trouble?
Yes, it should. Alexander now works on it.
2. Unless I'm missing something, contrib/bloom is making no effort to ensure that bloom index pages can be distinguished from other pages by pg_filedump. That's fine if your expectation is that bloom will always be a toy with no use in production; but otherwise, not so much. You need to make sure that the last two bytes of the page special space contain a uniquely identifiable code; compare spgist_page_id in SPGiST indexes.
Now contrib/bloom is a canonical example how to implement yourown index and how to use generic WAL interface. And it is an useful toy: in some cases it could help in production system, patch attached. I'm a little dissatisfied with patch because I had to add unused field to BloomPageOpaqueData, in opposite case size of BloomPageOpaqueData struct equals 6 bytes but special size is MAXALIGNED, so, last two bytes will be unused. If unused field is not a problem, I will push this patch.
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