Re: Block-level CRC checks

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Block-level CRC checks
Date: 2008-12-15 17:16:43
Message-ID: 1229361403.6678.33.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:13 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> > >> Alvaro, have you given up on the patch or are you just busy on
> > >> something else at the moment?
> > >
> > > I've given up until we find a good way to handle hint bits. Various
> > > schemes have been proposed but they all have more or less fatal flaws.
> >
> > Agreed. Though, I don't want to see this patch get dropped from 8.4.
> >
> > ALL, Alvaro has tried a couple different methods, does anyone have any
> > other ideas?
>
> Feature freeze is not the time to be looking for new ideas. I suggest
> we save this for 8.5.

Agreed, shall we remove the replication and se postgres patches too :P.

If we can't fix the issue, then yeah let's rip it out but as it sits we
have a hurdle that needs to be overcome not a new feature that needs to
be implemented.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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