Re: Enabling Checksums
Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
From: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-11-09T05:18:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 09/11/12 02:01, Jeff Davis wrote: > As I understand it, the main part of the remaining work to be done for > the checksums patch (at least the first commit) is to have a better way > to enable/disable them. > > For the sake of simplicity (implementation as well as usability), it > seems like there is agreement that checksums should be enabled or > disabled for the entire instance, not per-table. I can definately see that simplicity is an argument here, but I can easily imagine that some performance hungry users would prefer to be able to disable the functionality on a per table level. UNCHECKSUMMED TABLES (similar to UNLOGGED TABLES). I would definately stuff our system in state = 2 in your description if it was available. -- Jesper