Re: Enabling Checksums

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-11-14T20:06:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Regarding checksums, I can add an option for the initdb that the 
> buildfarm script runs. We already run different tests for different 
> encodings. Of course, constant expanding like this won't scale, so we 
> need to pick the options we want to exrecise carefully.

I thought the whole point of the buildfarm was to provide a scalable way
of exercising different combinations of options that individual
developers couldn't practically test.  We might need a little more
coordination among buildfarm owners to ensure we get full coverage,
of course.

			regards, tom lane