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Re: Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-04-03T19:29:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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> On 3 Apr 2026, at 19:56, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:

Come to think of it, a cleaner solution is to just postpone updating the
launcher_running flag until it actually not running anymore.  Done in the
attached which has done several CI runs now.

> CFBot claims it needs a rebase which I'm not sure why (I can't reproduce a
> rebase error), but here is a rebase anyways.

Turns out it's applying on 57706799186 rather than HEAD, and the catversion
bump in fd7a25af11e cause this patch to not apply.

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Daniel Gustafsson

Commits

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  1. Use correct datatype for PID

  2. Improve comments in online checksums code

  3. Fix checksum state transition during promotion

  4. Fix regex searching for page verification failures in tests

  5. Apply data-checksum worker throttling parameters

  6. Skip WAL for unlogged main fork during online checksum enable

  7. Fix data_checksum GUC show_hook

  8. Improve database detection logic in datachecksumsworker

  9. Improve handling of concurrent checksum requests

  10. Typo and spelling fixups for online checksums

  11. Fix invalid checksum state transition in checkpoints

  12. Handle data_checksum state changes during launcher_exit

  13. Test improvements for online checksums

  14. Prevent pg_enable/disable_data_checksums() on standby

  15. Test stabilization for online checksums

  16. Make data checksum tests more resilient for slow machines

  17. Formalize WAL record for XLOG_CHECKPOINT_REDO

  18. Revert "Get rid of WALBufMappingLock"

  19. Get rid of WALBufMappingLock

  20. Improve grammar of options for command arrays in TAP tests