Re: Online enabling of checksums

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-05T20:14:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2018-04-05 13:12:08 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-04-05 22:06:36 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I have now pushed this latest version with some minor text adjustments and
> > a catversion bump.
> > 
> > Thanks for all the reviews!
> 
> I want to be on the record that I think merging a nontrival feature that
> got submitted 2018-02-21, just before the start of the last last CF, is
> an abuse of process, and not cool.  We've other people working hard to
> follow the process, and circumventing it like this just signals to
> people trying to follow the rules that they're fools.
> 
> Merging ~2kloc patches like that is going to cause pain. And even if
> not, it causes procedual damage.

And even worse, without even announcing an intent to commit and giving
people a chance to object.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


Commits

  1. Online enabling and disabling of data checksums

  2. Deactive flapping checksum isolation tests.

  3. Add support for coordinating record typmods among parallel workers.