Re: Online enabling of checksums

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-06T23:52:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andres,

* Andres Freund (andres@anarazel.de) wrote:
> On 2018-04-06 19:31:56 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > I'm quite sure that bringing up MERGE in this thread and saying it needs
> > to be reverted without even having the committer of that feature on the
> > CC list isn't terribly useful and conflates two otherwise unrelated
> > patches and efforts.
> 
> Robert also mentioned it on the other thread, so... And no, they're not
> unrelated matters, in that it's pushing half baked stuff.

Apparently I've missed where he specifically called for it to be
reverted then, which is fine, and my apologies for missing it amongst
the depth of that particular thread.  I do think that specifically
asking for it to be reverted is distinct from expressing concerns about
it.

Thanks!

Stephen

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.