Re: Enable data checksums by default

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-11-07T18:38:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Avoid BufferGetLSNAtomic() calls during nbtree scans.

  2. doc PG 18 relnotes: Add incompatibility note about checksums now default

  3. Fix pg_upgrade's cross-version tests when old < 18

  4. initdb: Change default to using data checksums.

  5. Allow TAP tests to force checksums off when calling init()

  6. initdb: Add new option "--no-data-checksums"

  7. Tweak docs to reduce possible impact of data checksums

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I have just noticed that since this patch was committed as 04bec894a04c,
pg_upgrade's "make check" action is unusable when given the
"olddump/oldinstall" options.  We now need to inject '-k' to the initdb
line for old servers, and we don't, so all upgrade tests fail.  I think
this patch should be enough to fix it.

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