Re: Block-level CRC checks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Block-level CRC checks
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Msg-id 1229361403.6678.33.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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In response to Re: Block-level CRC checks  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:13 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> > >> Alvaro, have you given up on the patch or are you just busy on
> > >> something else at the moment?
> > >
> > > I've given up until we find a good way to handle hint bits.  Various
> > > schemes have been proposed but they all have more or less fatal flaws.
> > 
> > Agreed.  Though, I don't want to see this patch get dropped from 8.4.
> > 
> > ALL, Alvaro has tried a couple different methods, does anyone have any
> > other ideas?
> 
> Feature freeze is not the time to be looking for new ideas.  I suggest
> we save this for 8.5.

Agreed, shall we remove the replication and se postgres patches too :P.

If we can't fix the issue, then yeah let's rip it out but as it sits we
have a hurdle that needs to be overcome not a new feature that needs to
be implemented.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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