Re: 16-bit page checksums for 9.2

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-02-20T22:49:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Wakeup WALWriter as needed for asynchronous commit performance.

>> Guys, are we talking about an on-disk format change?  If so, this may
>> need to be kicked out of 9.2 ...
> 
> Yes, we are.  Simon's gone to some pains to make it backward
> compatible, but IMHO it's a lot messier and less future-proof than it
> could be with some more work, and if we commit this patch than we WILL
> be stuck with this for a very long time.

Yeah.  I'd personally prefer to boot this to 9.3, then.  It's not like
there's not enough features for 9.2, and I really don't want this
feature to cause 5 others to be delayed.

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Josh Berkus
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