Tom Lane wrote: > Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is zeroing the pages the only / best option? > > It's the only way to avoid a core dump when the system tries to process > the page. And no, I don't want to propagate the notion that "this page > is broken" beyond the buffer manager, so testing elsewhere isn't an > acceptable answer. > > Basically, one should only turn this variable on after giving up on the > possibility of getting any data out of the broken page itself. It would > be folly to run with it turned on as a normal setting.
This statement should *definitely* go into the documentation for the option, then... -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])