Re: pgsql: Add TAP tests for pg_verify_checksums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Banck
Subject Re: pgsql: Add TAP tests for pg_verify_checksums
Date
Msg-id 1539960209.22872.19.camel@credativ.de
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In response to Re: pgsql: Add TAP tests for pg_verify_checksums  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Add TAP tests for pg_verify_checksums  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

Am Freitag, den 19.10.2018, 10:36 -0400 schrieb Stephen Frost:
> Greetings,
> 
> * Michael Paquier (michael@paquier.xyz) wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 05:30:05PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > > Fine by me.
> > 
> > Thanks.  This is now committed after some tweaks to the comments, a bit
> > earlier than I thought first.
> 
> I just saw this committed and I'm trying to figure out why we are
> creating yet-another-list when it comes to deciding what should be
> checksum'd and what shouldn't be.
> 
> Specifically, pg_basebackup (or, really,
> src/backend/replication/basebackup.c) has 'is_checksummed_file' which
> operates differently from pg_verify_checksum with this change, and that
> seems rather wrong.

To be fair, the list in src/backend/replication/basebackup.c was a copy-
paste from the one in pg_verify_checksums (or from other parts of the 
online activation patch).

I agree it makes sense to have both in sync or, better yet, factored out
in a central place, but I don't currently have further opinions on
whether it should be a black- or whitelist.


Michael

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