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Re: WAL consistency check facility

Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>

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From: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@enterprisedb.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2016-11-11T08:53:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 3:36 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, who are all of the people involved in the effort to produce this
>> patch, and what's the right way to attribute credit?
>
> The original idea was from Heikki as he has introduced the idea of
> doing such checks if you look at the original thread. I added on top
> of it a couple of things like the concept of page masking, and hacked
> an early version of the versoin we have now
> (https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqR4vxdKijP+Du82vOcOnGMvutq-gfqiU2dsH4bsM77hYg@mail.gmail.com).
> So it seems to me that marking Heikki as an author would be fair as
> the original idea is from him. I don't mind being marked only as a
> reviewer of the feature, or as someone from which has written an
> earlier version of the patch, but I let that up to your judgement.
> Kuntai is definitely an author.
Although lot of changes have been done later, but I've started with the patch
attached in the above thread. Hence, I feel the author of that patch should
also get the credit.

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Thanks & Regards,
Kuntal Ghosh
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Minor fixes for WAL consistency checking.