Re: Online enabling of checksums

On 2018-03-01 16:18:48 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 2018-03-01 12:56:35 +0500, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> > > I've tried to rebase this patch to 10 and, despite minor rebase issues
> > (oids, bgw_type, changes to specscanner), patch works fine.
> > > Do we provide backporting for such features?
> >
> > Definitely not. With very rare exceptions (OS compatibility and the
> > like), features aren't backported.
> >
> 
> Yeah. And definitely not something that both changes the format of
> pg_control (by adding new possible values to the checksum field) *and* adds
> a new WAL record type...

And even more so, I'm not even sure it makes sense to try to get this
into v11. This is a medium-large complicated feature, submitted to the
last CF for v11.  That's pretty late.  Now, Magnus is a committer, but
nevertheless...

Greetings,

Andres Freund