Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...
Date: 2003-08-28 20:49:14
Message-ID: 19212.1062103754@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
>> You do realize that you'll be forcing initdbs on people if you
>> blithely add and remove such a patch?

> Yup. I was tempted to include another patch just to bump the catalog
> version in the event that it doesn't gracefully detect differing block
> sizes... haven't tested if it does that or not.

It does, and you will definitely incur my wrath if you start putting in
unnecessary platform-specific catversion hacks.

>> I think we forced an initdb for beta2 for other reasons, but I'm
>> hoping to avoid any more in the 7.4 branch.

> 1) People shouldn't be using -devel for production

No, but they might reasonably hope to segue a beta installation into
production without yet-another reload ...

regards, tom lane

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