Re: Online enabling of checksums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Online enabling of checksums
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Msg-id CA+Tgmob6kHHm6jvgSQv63QT==5cGfbbaD4W37BmYOmct4NWtYQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Online enabling of checksums  (Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Online enabling of checksums  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 6:26 PM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Hmmm, OK. So we need to have a valid checksum on a page, disable
> checksums, set some hint bits on the page (which won't be WAL-logged),
> enable checksums again and still get a valid checksum even with the new
> hint bits? That's possible, albeit unlikely.

No, the problem is if - as is much more likely - the checksum is not
still valid.

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Robert Haas
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