Re: Block-level CRC checks

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "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 16:23:45
Message-ID: 36e682920812150823r2d1334bfh5823485ab46b58af@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> 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.

Well, we may not need a new idea. Currently, the problem I see with
the checkpoint-at-shutdown looks like it could possibly be easily
solved. Though, there may be other issues I'm not familiar with. Has
anyone reviewed this yet?

--
Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
myYearbook.com

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