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This is useful for checks of relation pages without having to load the pages into the shared buffers, and two cases can make use of that: page verification in base backups and the online, lock-safe, flavor. Compatibility is kept with past versions using a routine that calls the new extended routine with the set of options compatible with the original version. Contrary to d401c576, a macro cannot be used as there may be external code relying on the presence of the original routine. This is applied down to 11, where this will be used by a follow-up commit addressing a set of issues with page verification in base backups. Extracted from a larger patch by the same author. Author: Anastasia Lubennikova Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/608f3476-0598-2514-2c03-e05c7d2b0cbd@postgrespro.ru Backpatch-through: 11
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