Comment 2 for bug 1042150

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Raghavendra D Prabhu (raghavendra-prabhu) wrote :

The

   /* The user may be dumping a corrupt table. Jump
   over the corruption to recover as much as possible. */

in row_search_for_mysql seems to indicate that this feature can be used to dump a table which has a few pages corrupt by skipping over them. This can be / is a very useful feature to have in minor data recoveries.

Before recommending to customers, it would be good to have it tested (with test cases testable with mysql-test-run) and making sure it covers all possible corner cases of I/O to corrupted pages.