Re: Enabling Checksums

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, 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>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Enabling Checksums
Date: 2013-04-18 08:17:39
Message-ID: CA+U5nML47A3uBV-SFeenXK1anKj-XYe3wWAq2sasQoHr9v89WQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 17 April 2013 22:36, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

>> > I would like to know the answer of how an upgrade from checksum to
>> > no-checksum would behave so I can modify pg_upgrade to allow it.
>>
>> Why? 9.3 pg_upgrade certainly doesn't need it. When we get to 9.4, if
>> someone has checksums enabled and wants to disable it, why is pg_upgrade
>> the right time to do that? Wouldn't it make more sense to allow them to
>> do that at any time?
>
> Well, right now, pg_upgrade is the only way you could potentially turn
> off checksums. You are right that we might eventually want a command,
> but my point is that we currently have a limitation in pg_upgrade that
> might not be necessary.

We don't currently have checksums, so pg_upgrade doesn't need to cope
with turning them off in 9.3

For 9.4, it might, but likely we've have a tool to turn them off
before then anyway.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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