On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 02:03:32AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 01:11 Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> or the new checksum validation logic complaining about them, and such
>>> when doing backups and I wonder if that is because people simply don’t
>>> use the two together much, making me wonder how much of an issue this
>>> really is or would be with the account-for-everything approach I’ve
>>> been advocating for.
>>
>> I mean obviously pg_verify_checksum simply hasn't been actually tested
>> much with plain postgres without extensions, given the all weaknesses
>> identified in this thread.
>
> No, it hasn’t, but pg_basebackup has been around quite a while and has
> always copied everything, as best as I can recall anyway.
At this point, let's create a new thread with a description of what has
been discussed and what we'd like to do for HEAD and v11. I got
something in mind which would result in a minimal patch. Let's start
from that.
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Michael
