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

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Online enabling of checksums
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Msg-id CABUevEwAwhXdvX9Zjrosk977ijD7hGO0KGTKmSaSAgkur1j=cA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Online enabling of checksums  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Online enabling of checksums  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
On 2018-03-01 12:56:35 +0500, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> I've tried to rebase this patch to 10 and, despite minor rebase issues (oids, bgw_type, changes to specscanner), patch works fine.
> Do we provide backporting for such features?

Definitely not. With very rare exceptions (OS compatibility and the
like), features aren't backported.

Yeah. And definitely not something that both changes the format of pg_control (by adding new possible values to the checksum field) *and* adds a new WAL record type... 

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