Re: 16-bit page checksums for 9.2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: 16-bit page checksums for 9.2
Date
Msg-id 4F42CDF5.40406@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: 16-bit page checksums for 9.2  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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>> Guys, are we talking about an on-disk format change?  If so, this may
>> need to be kicked out of 9.2 ...
> 
> Yes, we are.  Simon's gone to some pains to make it backward
> compatible, but IMHO it's a lot messier and less future-proof than it
> could be with some more work, and if we commit this patch than we WILL
> be stuck with this for a very long time.

Yeah.  I'd personally prefer to boot this to 9.3, then.  It's not like
there's not enough features for 9.2, and I really don't want this
feature to cause 5 others to be delayed.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


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