From: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Enabling Checksums |
Date: | 2013-04-17 21:00:36 |
Message-ID: | 1366232436.4736.326.camel@sussancws0025 |
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On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 16:58 +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> wrote:
> > Is there any way we can change the checksum algorithm in 9.4
> > *without* breaking pg_upgrade?
>
> Personally I think we're going to need a solution for page format
> changes someday eventually....
>
> What advantages are we postponing now to avoid it?
>
> * 32-bit checksums?
> * Being able to enable/disable checksums?
>
> Anything else?
I'm not sure that changing the page format is the most difficult part of
enabling/disabling checksums. It's easy enough to have page header bits
if the current information is not enough (and those bits were there, but
Heikki requested their removal and I couldn't think of a concrete reason
to keep them).
Eventually, it would be nice to be able to break the page format and
have more space for things like checksums (and probably a few other
things, maybe some visibility-related optimizations). But that's a few
years off and we don't have any real plan for that.
What I wanted to accomplish with this patch is the simplest checksum
mechanism that we could get that would be fast enough that many people
would be able to use it. I expect it to be useful until we do decide to
break the page format.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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