Re: 16-bit page checksums for 9.2

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 16-bit page checksums for 9.2
Date: 2012-02-20 22:49:25
Message-ID: 4F42CDF5.40406@agliodbs.com
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>> Guys, are we talking about an on-disk format change? If so, this may
>> need to be kicked out of 9.2 ...
>
> Yes, we are. Simon's gone to some pains to make it backward
> compatible, but IMHO it's a lot messier and less future-proof than it
> could be with some more work, and if we commit this patch than we WILL
> be stuck with this for a very long time.

Yeah. I'd personally prefer to boot this to 9.3, then. It's not like
there's not enough features for 9.2, and I really don't want this
feature to cause 5 others to be delayed.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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