Re: 16-bit page checksums for 9.2

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, david@fetter.org, aidan@highrise.ca, stark@mit.edu, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-02-29T17:44:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →
  1. Wakeup WALWriter as needed for asynchronous commit performance.

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>>> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Are you saying you would accept the patch if we had this?
>>>
>>>> I think I would still be uncomfortable with the hacks in the page header.
>>>
>>> There are no "hacks". There are some carefully designed changes with
>>> input from multiple people, including yourself, and it copes as
>>> gracefully as it can with backwards compatibility requirements.
>>
>> You have comments from three different people, all experienced
>> hackers, disagreeing with this position;
>
> Who is the third person you speak of? Perhaps they will speak again if
> they wish to be heard.

Tom Lane.  It was the very first email posted in response to the very
first version of this patch you ever posted.

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Robert Haas
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