Re: Enabling Checksums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Enabling Checksums
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Msg-id 23592.1366900642@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Enabling Checksums  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On 24 April 2013 21:06, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
>> What goal are you trying to accomplish with this patch?

> That we might need to patch the checksum version on a production release.

I don't actually buy that argument, certainly not as something that
could happen in 9.3.

I'm inclined to think we should forget about this until we have a
concrete use-case for it.  As Jeff says, there is no need for pg_control
contents to be compatible across major releases, so there's no harm in
waiting if we have any doubts about how it ought to work.
        regards, tom lane



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