Re: WIP checksums patch

On 10/1/12 12:22 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> >Perhaps we don't allow this to be turned per page, but rather per
>> >cluster, and per-cluster would require the entire cluster to be
>> >rewritten.
> We dicussed this last year, and options which require a total rewrite of
> the database in order to turn on the option were rejected as impractical
> for users.

For whatever it's worth... we (and presumably others) still use londiste (or Slony) as our upgrade path, so we could tolerate a cluster-wide setting. We'd just set it when building new clusters via londiste and forget about it.

So I'd rather see this get in at a cluster level than not make it at all while we wait for something better.
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect                   jim@nasby.net
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