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Re: BUG #15909: Doc for `initdb` on `--data-checksums` says "cannot be changed later", but *can* be in Pg 12.

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: basil.bourque@gmail.com, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2019-07-17T03:30:23Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 04:10:52PM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> But now in Postgres 12, the `pg_checksums` command can enable or disable
> checksums on an existing cluster.

My fault here.  As it is an initdb option, it is pretty obvious that
it is an initialization-time option.  My take is to simply remove the
sentence completely instead of adding an extra reference to
pg_checksums.  Thoughts?
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Simplify description of --data-checksums in documentation of initdb