Re: Online enabling of checksums

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-07T15:26:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2018-04-07 10:14:49 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> Can the pg_verify_checksums command be kept at least, please? 
> 
> AFAICT this one is not contentious, the code is isolated, it's really
> useful, orthogonal to online checksum activation and argueably could've
> been committed as a separate patch anyway.

I've not looked at it in any meaningful amount of detail, but it does
seem a lot lower risk from here.

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.