Re: Enable data checksums by default - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Enable data checksums by default
Date
Msg-id 20190411165812.fda2lbtka5fgesdf@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Enable data checksums by default  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Enable data checksums by default
List pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2019-04-09 23:11:03 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Enabling checksums by default will require anyone using pg_upgrade to
> run initdb to disable checksums before running pg_upgrade, for one
> release.  We could add checksums for non-link pg_upgrade runs, but we
> don't have code to do that yet, and most people use link anyway.

Hm. We could just have pg_ugprade run pg_checksums --enable/disable,
based on the old cluster, and print a warning on mismatches. Not sure if
that's worth it, but ...

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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