Re: Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster
Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Michael Paquier
<michael@paquier.xyz>, Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>,
PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-11-19T21:03:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi, I have been following these discussions but not read the patch in detail. This patch makes me worried especially with the new issues recently uncovered. This was already a quite big patch and to fix these issues it will likely have to become even bigger and given how this would become a very rarely stressed code paths I wonder if we can actually ever become confident that the patch works in all edge cases. Something like this need to be easy to understand for us to have any hope at all to be comfortable in the correctness. Can we actually do that? Andreas