Re: Gotchas about pg_verify_checksums

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:47:29AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:21:29PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> Naming it pg_checksums, with only verification as an option, seems to me to
>> imply future direction for 12 more than what pg_verify_checksums does. I would
>> leave it the way it is, but I don’t have very strong opinions (or any plans on
>> hacking on offline checksum enabling for that matter).
>
> Okay, I am fine to let such decision to you and Magnus at the end as the
> authors and committers of the thing. I think that I will just hack out
> this tool myself after reusing this code if you don't mind of course..

If anybody on this list is interested, I have extended
pg_verify_checksums into this tool I called pg_checksums which is able
to do a couple of more things like enable checksums, disable checksums,
bypass the final fsync of the data folder with a --no-sync. The core
feature to verify checksums is still around of course.

This allows anybody to control the checksums of a cluster that was shut
down cleanly, which I wanted for some time myself:
https://github.com/michaelpq/pg_plugins/tree/master/pg_checksums

That's only compatible with v11, but it can be easily tweaked to be
compatible with past versions. I am of course not proposing to include
that in v11 or above. If anybody wishes to do a proposal based on that
stuff for v12, please feel free to.
--
Michael