On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
>> -Is it worth considering making CRCs an optional compile-time feature, and
>> that (for now at least) you couldn't get them and the in-place upgrade at
>> the same time?
>
> Hmm ... might be better than not offering them in 8.4 at all, but the
> thing is that then you are asking packagers to decide for their
> customers which is more important. And I'd bet you anything you want
> that in-place upgrade would be their choice.
I was thinking of something similar to how --enable-thread-safety has been
rolled out. It could be hanging around there and available to those who
want it in their build, even though it might not be available by default
in a typical mainstream distribution. Since there's already a GUC for
toggling the checksums in the code, internally it could work like
debug_assertions where you only get that option if support was compiled in
appropriately. Just a thought I wanted to throw out there, if it makes
eventual upgrades from 8.4 more complicated it may not be worth even
considering.
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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
