Re: More issues with pg_verify_checksums and checksum verificationin base backups - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: More issues with pg_verify_checksums and checksum verificationin base backups
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Msg-id 20181120023218.ff2qa7sf5buyg274@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: More issues with pg_verify_checksums and checksum verificationin base backups  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: More issues with pg_verify_checksums and checksum verificationin base backups  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Hi,

On 2018-11-19 21:18:43 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> As has been mentioned elsewhere, there's really a 'right' way to do
> things and allowing PG to be 'extensible' by simply ignoring random
> files showing up isn't that- if we want PG to be extensible in this way
> then we need to provide a mechanism for that to happen.

I still don't buy this argument. I'm giving up here, as I just don't
have enough energy to keep up with this discussion.

FWIW, I think it's bad, that we don't error out on checksum failures in
basebackups by default. And that's only really feasible with a
whitelisting approach.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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