Re: Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

Cc: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-08-19T16:21:41Z

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Use correct datatype for PID
- 0ca1b3010597 19 (unreleased) landed
Improve comments in online checksums code
- cd857dec0e0a 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix checksum state transition during promotion
- 5fee7cab1b87 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix regex searching for page verification failures in tests
- 486b9a9b9eb4 19 (unreleased) landed
Apply data-checksum worker throttling parameters
- 9a39056c418c 19 (unreleased) landed
Skip WAL for unlogged main fork during online checksum enable
- 2018bd616790 19 (unreleased) landed
Revert "Get rid of WALBufMappingLock"
- c13070a27b63 19 (unreleased) cited
Get rid of WALBufMappingLock
- bc22dc0e0ddc 18.0 cited
Improve grammar of options for command arrays in TAP tests
- ce1b0f9da03e 18.0 cited

On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 09:34:03PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Attached is a rebase on top of the func.sgml changes which caused this to no
> longer apply.
> 
> This version is also substantially updated with a new injection point based
> test suite, fixed a few bugs (found by said test suite), added checkpoint to
> disabling checksums, code cleanup, more granular wait events, comment rewrites
> and additions and more smaller cleanups.

I am very glad you went simple and didn't attempt restarting this
process from the place it stopped:

    If the cluster is stopped while in <literal>inprogress-on</literal>
    mode, for any reason, then this process must be
    restarted manually. To do this, re-execute the function
    <function>pg_enable_data_checksums()</function> once the cluster has
    been restarted. The process will start over, there is no support for
    resuming work from where it was interrupted.

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