Re: Offline enabling/disabling of data checksums

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Cc: Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-03-13T12:23:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 02:43:39PM +0300, Sergei Kornilov wrote:
> Seems good. And I think we need backpath this check to pg11. similar
> to cross-version compatibility checks 

Good point raised, a backpatch looks adapted.  It would be nice to get
into something more dynamic, but pg_checksum_block() uses directly
BLCKSZ :(
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Reorganize Notes section in documentation of pg_checksums

  2. Add option -N/--no-sync to pg_checksums

  3. Add options to enable and disable checksums in pg_checksums

  4. Refactor more code logic to update the control file

  5. Rename pg_verify_checksums to pg_checksums

  6. Fix cross-version compatibility checks of pg_verify_checksums

  7. Add routine able to update the control file to src/common/