Re: BUG #15909: Doc for `initdb` on `--data-checksums` says "cannot be changed later", but *can* be in Pg 12.

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: basil.bourque@gmail.com, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2019-07-17T07:57:56Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
> On 17 Jul 2019, at 05:30, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 04:10:52PM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
>> But now in Postgres 12, the `pg_checksums` command can enable or disable
>> checksums on an existing cluster.
> 
> My fault here.  As it is an initdb option, it is pretty obvious that
> it is an initialization-time option.  My take is to simply remove the
> sentence completely instead of adding an extra reference to
> pg_checksums.  Thoughts?

Agreed, better to just remove the sentence altogether.

cheers ./daniel



Commits

  1. Simplify description of --data-checksums in documentation of initdb