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Switch to CRC-32C in WAL and other places.
The old algorithm was found to not be the usual CRC-32 algorithm, used by Ethernet et al. We were using a non-reflected lookup table with code meant for a reflected lookup table. That's a strange combination that AFAICS does not correspond to any bit-wise CRC calculation, which makes it difficult to reason about its properties. Although it has worked well in practice, seems safer to use a well-known algorithm. Since we're changing the algorithm anyway, we might as well choose a different polynomial. The Castagnoli polynomial has better error-correcting properties than the traditional CRC-32 polynomial, even if we had implemented it correctly. Another reason for picking that is that some new CPUs have hardware support for calculating CRC-32C, but not CRC-32, let alone our strange variant of it. This patch doesn't add any support for such hardware, but a future patch could now do that. The old algorithm is kept around for tsquery and pg_trgm, which use the values in indexes that need to remain compatible so that pg_upgrade works. While we're at it, share the old lookup table for CRC-32 calculation between hstore, ltree and core. They all use the same table, so might as well.
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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ typedef struct BkpBlock
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/*
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* Each page of XLOG file has a header like this:
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*/
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#define XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC 0xD07F /* can be used as WAL version indicator */
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#define XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC 0xD080 /* can be used as WAL version indicator */
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typedef struct XLogPageHeaderData
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{
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