branches/zip: page_zip_copy(): Copy only those B-tree page header
fields that are related to the records stored in the page. page_zip_copy() is a fall-back method in certain B-tree operations (tree compression, splitting or merging nodes). The contents of a page may fit in the compressed page frame when it has been modified in a certain sequence, but not when the page is recompressed. Sometimes, copying all or part of the records to an empty page could fail because of compression overflow. In such cases, we copy the compressed and uncompressed pages bit for bit and delete any unwanted records from the copy. (Deletion is guaranteed to succeed.) The method page_zip_copy() is invoked very rarely. In one case, page_zip_copy() was called in btr_lift_page_up() to move the records to the root page of the B-tree. Because page_zip_copy() copied all B-tree page header fields, it overwrote the file segment header fields PAGE_BTR_SEG_LEAF and PAGE_BTR_SEG_TOP. This is the probable cause of the corruption that was reported as Mantis issue #63 and others.
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