Re: Online enabling of checksums

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Date: 2018-02-23T02:53:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
How does:

On 2018-02-23 11:48:16 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:24:37AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I suspect I'm going to get some grief for this, but I think the time has
> > come to bite the bullet and support changing databases in the same
> > process...
> 
> I'd like to see that.  Last time this has been discussed, and Robert
> complained to me immediately when I suggested it, is that this is not
> worth it with the many complications around syscache handling and
> resource cleanup.

relate to:

> It is in the long term more stable to use a model
> where a parent process handles a set of children and decides to which
> database each child should spawn, which is what autovacuum does.

?


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.